I ordered an MDT Field Stock for my son's CZ-455 during the Black Friday sale. I just got around to putting the rifle, originally a 27" Ultra-Luxe, in the new stock Monday. Then I did a quick range session with the rig.
I am quite impressed with the stock - certainly an upgrade from the Tupperware stocks Tikka likes to use (I can't speak to CZ's synthetic stocks beyond saying I handled a 457 in a LGS and it felt like a toy). @Mark_Dorman did a nice review of this stock (for a 10/22) back before Christmas.
Of interest to potential buyers is that my son's 455 shoots significantly better in the Field Stock than it does in the original stock or the Boyd stock from a long-gone 455 Tacticool. It doesn't shoot quiiiii-te as well as my Bartlein-barreled Vudoo at 50 yards, but I'm impressed. I haven't had time to take it out further yet; the goal for this rig is to use in a little 100-yard-max monthly match.
A few other notes:
I am quite impressed with the stock - certainly an upgrade from the Tupperware stocks Tikka likes to use (I can't speak to CZ's synthetic stocks beyond saying I handled a 457 in a LGS and it felt like a toy). @Mark_Dorman did a nice review of this stock (for a 10/22) back before Christmas.
Of interest to potential buyers is that my son's 455 shoots significantly better in the Field Stock than it does in the original stock or the Boyd stock from a long-gone 455 Tacticool. It doesn't shoot quiiiii-te as well as my Bartlein-barreled Vudoo at 50 yards, but I'm impressed. I haven't had time to take it out further yet; the goal for this rig is to use in a little 100-yard-max monthly match.
A few other notes:
- I tightened the stock screws to 40 inch-pounds. None of the squishy feeling I've encountered in other synthetic stocks (urp Tikka).
- The whole rig, with SWFA SS fixed-16x scope (~24 ounces with rings), weighs in at just under 10 pounds. Stock weighs just over three pounds.
- The rifle balances in front of the mag well - not bad for a pencil barrel (albeit a long pencil barrel).
- "Conventional wisdom" is that a thin barrel usually performs better with some support under it. I tried both ways - putting a block of stiff foam between barrel and fore-end at different distances in front on the tenon. For this rifle at least, best performance was with the long, thin barrel free-floating.
- I considered posting this in the Bolt Action Rifles forum because, were I to have any use for a new Tikka - awesome rifles but horrible plastic stock - I'd pretty much jump at one of these. But then I have no experience with the Field Stock's long-standing competition from KRG et. al. or its Oryx brother.
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