u/mooseycreatures

Showing off my work in progress stutzen style forend for my 7mm-08 AI tikka. I bought a fullstock Steyr SM12 in april and it arrived with a cracked stock. EuroOp. took it back but it broke my heart having to give up the very pretty wood. I decided to build another tikka with a full length mannlicher-style stutzen stock to scratch that itch instead.

It has gone surprisingly well so far, only a few mistakes where I removed a little too much wood. I'm planning on making a Gewehr 1891 muzzle block for the front sight, but it won't touch the forend so it'll still be free floating. I'll eventually buy another blank for the buttstock, but I don't feel motivated to start that project anytime soon.

Claro walnut with tung oil finish. The barrel is a 19" 5R from PBB and it shoots 140gr e-tips like a laser. CTR inlet with the MT beretta branded bottom metal.

I made a 3D printable spacer for those weirdos that want to use a single-stack magazine in a CTR inlet stock or chassis. It should prevent any debris from getting into the FCG.

Be advised, I've only tested it in a Woox CTR inlet mini-chassis with an OEM bottom metal and the Beretta branded Mountain Tactical aluminum bottom metal. The Woox inlet is almost certainly a bit different than an OEM stock, but it's what I had to work with. The OEM plastic bottom metal fits perfectly, but the MT/Beretta one is actually machined asymmetrically so the right side has a bit of a gap.

Requested by u/OldGoodWhisky here.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7356164

I added a cheek riser and swapped to a lower scope mount. The riser turned out well and didn't take as long as I thought it would. I also turned some stainless pillars to get the beretta bottom metal to sit right. It was a good project and I'm mostly happy with how it turned out, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you really love MDT.

Someone was asking about the MDT TIMBR Core a few months back so here's mine that I just finished putting together.

• PBB 22TCM, 27"
• TT Diamond set to 1lb
• Beretta bottom metal
• Sightron S6 10-60 BR
• Total weight: 15.5lb

I bought the stock the first week they released the Tikka inlet and I was pretty disappointed. The finish was pretty meh and the grip feels like grabbing a 2x4. I added an arca rail to the forend and milled out the inlet to accept OEM bottom metals. That required modifying the included aluminum pillars, but they really should be steel as they're starting to deform already. I also recountoured the neck to improve the grip feel and added a negative angle to the buttstock with a new recoil pad (which was totally necessary for what is essentially a 22 hornet). Stripped and refinished except for the very mediocre laser/cnc checkering.

It also really needs a cheek riser, but I wasn't really interested in throwing more work into this stock.

To anyone interested in buying one, I'd say MDT still hasn't figured out wood yet and to stick with their chassis systems. It's a step up from the TIMBR Frontier, which was a total disaster, but it's not great.