Howa Varminter version of Boyd's Thumbhole Stock?

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Anyone put a Boyd's Varminter Thumbhole Stock on a Howa
Varminter? I have a Howa Varminter, is Stainless, and
I think it would look pretty nice in a Boyd's Pepper
Laminate Varminter Thumbhole. So anyone out there that
has made this upgrade, to the factory synthetic stock,
I would appreciate any feedback on how this went for you.
Did it just bolt on, and shoot well, or does it have to
have the action bedded? How was the fit? Mine is shooting
pretty decent groups in the factory synthetic stock, with
out bedding, and even though the Boyd's looks sharper,
and I would like to have a thumbhole stock, I don't want
to go backwards, accuracy wise.

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OK, no comments on the Boyd stocks for Howas, anybody have
any comments on the Hogue rifle stocks? Is the full
aluminum bedding block worth the extra money, over just
aluminum pillars?

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2MG,

Willing to expand on your preference of B&C over Hogue?
I see they both have solid aluminum bedding blocks, so
the both stocks should be stable.

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Check that stock on Boyds website, and then some of the other sites like Midway, MidSouth,Etc. Quite a difference in price, I don't understand that !
 
I am in the process of puting a howa heavy barreled action into a boyds thumbhole stock right now for my brother. I had to do a little inletting for the safety, bolt release, and trigger. Other than that it fit fairly well. I bed all my rifles, but looking at the bedding job it didn't take much to fill in the small voids that were there.
 
Squeeze, As you may or may not know, Boyds makes the stock for Howa factory rifles. I did not do the exact thing you are asking, but put a pepper laminate, not the varmint contour, on a Howa stainless 22-250 action. Fit was really good, not much inletting needed, just a little scraping. I did bed mine from the get-go so I can't tell you how it shot before. It did vastly improve over a B&C stock which it replaced.
 
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