Re: Manners vs McMillan?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BMG50CAL</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Master_Blaster</div><div class="ubbcode-body">on a total side note, Does anyone have any experience with the Bell and Carlson Tactical Medalist? How does it compare to the Manners or McM </div></div>
Not in the same league. </div></div>
i kind of agree with this. although i have no experience with Manners stocks i do with B&C and McM. all three of the last McM stocks i've bedded for customers had off centered pillar holes and when i redrilled the holes, there were some fairly good sized voids in the material. the last one was also noticably thicker on one side than the other in the action area and skewed the barreled action all the way to the right side with the barrel touching the channel and 1/4'' gap on the left side.
the action inlet needed to be milled out to fixe the off centering of the action. told the customer to send it back for replacement, which i'm sure they would have done. he really wanted to go shoot it, so it got bedded and came out fine.
i've never had a problem with anything off centered in B&C stocks to date, and i've bedded over 30 of those. the McM is a lot heavier(chunky comes to mind) and would probably be a lot sturdier than B&C.
The B&C does have the aluminum bedding block/skeleton which makes it plenty sturdy for 90% of the shooters out there. For the price of the McM, i was really suprised the first time a customer brought one in for bedding and the pillars weren't even installed. Even though the color is molded in on McM, all the ones i've handled, you can see the fiberglass cloth through the finish. all of the were light colored desert camo stocks.
this is just my experience with these two...YMMV