Boyds Rapid stock

[angrybear]

Asked on the other site   but I'll also ask here, as some people don't do both.

Has anyone else ever come across a BOYDS stock for a rapid ? because I appear to have one & they certainly don't make them now.

It came on my FAC (sold new in Finland) when I got it, it was so nice I immediately put it away in a box & fitted a field stock, just took it out to photograph it & realised it says BOYDS, and it is superb quality.

[Ca_Varminter]

As far as I know.... Boyds stocks have never made any Airgun stocks....
The above stock looks like an Theoben stock... with a Boyds Recoil Pad....

Stuart

[Squinty]

Mk2 Deluxe 

[Kernal]

OMG now that is one classy Rapid i love these picture`s Brilliant just Brilliant M8.

 

[Andycoup]

As Squinty said above, the laminates were boyds.

[angrybear]

And when Phil Price did his comparison test Theoben lent him 4    1 in each cal.
How jealous. 

 

[angrybear]

As far as I know.... Boyds stocks have never made any Airgun stocks....
The above stock looks like an Theoben stock... with a Boyds Recoil Pad....

Stuart

The internal machining is subtly different enough from every other Rapid stock I've seen to convince me it's not std.

[angrybear]

Decided I need to resurrect this thread with another picture as this is the stock that came with my .25 FAC which will later be up for sale,
as per another thread asking advice

This shows what I referred to above as being subtly different, particularly in the recess for the under block blanking plug,
on all my other stocks the recess is oval but on this one alone it's round, also the sides of the recess are very noticeably thicker & squared off
much more sharply than on any other stock I've seen.

I have emailed Boyds asking them, but not holding my breath for a reply. 

[Squinty]

It's a CS stock, like everything that came out of the factory they chopped and changed depending on what was available at the time.
At a guess the l/h stock was cut for a Sporter or Mk3 trigger and it was fitted with a later Boyd pad.
Same with my S-Type stock the grip and thumb well is just that fraction bigger..the side walls of the action cut-out are a bit thicker.

[angrybear]

Thanks, the vendor says that's how it came from the factory.

What I can't understand is that there aren't several other people saying they have the same thing ?
I have only ever seen 1 other, in FAC here JS-NZ  has an identical stock with a black rubber pad,
so I've PM'd him to see if that's also Boyds.

[Squinty]

CS made the stocks for Theoben
The top profile on my S-Type is quite chunky
The oval plug cutout is sqaured off and the trigger slot was a bit close to the back travel of the late mk4 trigger until
The action doesn't sit perfectly in there

[Joshua19]

I've had this stock tucked away for years it's got the boyds recoil pad on it aswell lovely piece of wood stopped me from ever really using it

[angrybear]

That's the Deluxe laminate (swoon) known & accepted to be made by Boyds for the 2011 on Rapid deluxe model

[angrybear]

Well To my great surprise I have received a reply from Boyds:

After extensive research, we do not have any information that we ever manufactured any stocks for this company, or for that rifle.
Possibly we did sell semi inlet stocks back then, and this was was ordered as semi inlet so it has our pad on it & our shape,
but all inletting was custom done by the customer.

So either Theoben bought a job lot of off the shelf semi finished stocks, or no the laminates weren't made by Boyds either   

[Squinty]

tbh Steve I still think it is a standard Theoben CS stock with a Boyds pad.
Theoben used everything and anything that was on the shelf- plus it's an export model?

I vaguely remember that there were some Mk2s that had stocks which were slighly more rounded, there were small changes as usual to go with the mixture of blocks and triggers.
Maybe just made from narrower walnut blanks or entirely possible that they might have had some made by another company..

Tawnado was defintely one who sold later rapids with a slightly different shape stock but iirc they may have been Gary Cane's.