Originally Posted By: pyscodogThanks for the tips msinc. Sounds like I might have been as well off just fixing the factory stock.
Well...not really. If the factory one could have been fixed I don't know how...just way too soft. It sure wasn't for lack of trying that mine didn't improve any.
Biggest problem with the American is the fact that the magazine is only designed to shoot factory length ammo...no seating the bullet out to the lands. Unless you modify the magazine, which is next on my agenda...easy to do if you have a vertical mill.
I guess I shouldn't complain too much, I like the rifle and have shot some really nice groups out of it. Killed several woodchucks way out there too. But then again if I would have had to pay the gunsmith bill for a new stock, new barrel, glass bed, install trigger, machine a barrel nut wrench, machine muzzle crown, make the parts for the stock, install scope and zero...I could have had a Sako 85!!!!!
All kidding aside, I think you will really like it once you get it all done and shooting straight. Good luck!!!