I bought a Ruger 77 Hawkeye, it’s the new version of the MK11. 358 win caliber which only comes in stainless with black synthetic stock. Personally I can’t stand these stocks. So I bought a Boyd’s laminate thumb-hole stock. The problem I’m having is the cut out for the floorplate hinge and the trigger guard are too deep. The floor plate won’t close because it hits the stock because the hinge is to deep in the stock. I shimmed it up with 2 washers and it will close now. But it won’t latch, because the latch on the trigger guard is too low. If I shim the trigger guard up so it’s flush with the stock I think it will latch. Don’t have any more washers. My Question is, have you ever run into this problem? And do you think I will have any problems with these parts shimmed .I will have to put 2 washers about 45/1000s under the hinge for the floor plate and 1 washer each under the mounting holes in the trigger guard. (45/1000s about the thickness of a dime). The screws seem to be long enough. Also I was planning on glass bedding this stock. Just waiting for the glass bedding course to come. Also the stock is factory fit and finished and is suppose to just bolt on without any fitting. It does fit beautiful except for the cut outs being a little too deep. Thanks and I hope I explained this so you understand what I’m trying to tell you.
Yeah that is one of those “drop-in” parts, they drop in and they work they just don’t work correctly. I know I have said this before and everyone is probably tired of hearing it but there is NO such thing as a DROP in part. They all need to be fitted to work correctly, anyway enough of my ranting and all. I would definitely glass bed it but I would be concerned with the fit of the magazine when you have the shims in place. The magazine will want to shift up and down and leave a gap at the front where the nose of the cartridges can hang up when they are trying to feed. Either leave the trigger guard and the floor plate hinge piece fully inlet and dress down the outside of the stock and refinish or the easier way is to inlet the barreled action down to meet the bottom metal parts. When all is inletted correctly, glass bed and have fun at the range and in the field. Too bad the .358 Win cartridge isn’t more popular as it is a neat little cartridge, and you should be very pleased with it.
