As much as I liked the TC Compass I bought last fall, there were a few niggling problems. First of those was the aesthetics.  I’m a sucker for wood. The factory stock was about as nice as I’ve seen in a plastic stock, but Tupperware is just not my thing. Secondly, I was not getting a good cheek weld on the stock. The comb was just a hair low. The simple fix was to put a cheap nylon cheek pad on the butt, but that only exacerbated my aesthetic qualms.

I have had good luck with Boyd’s stocks in the past. I restocked my Ruger American Predator with a Boyd’s AT-One last year.  The AT-One is good bench stock but it’s weight makes it impractical for schlepping in the woods.  I thought about the skeleton Spike Camp for this project, but at the last minute shied away from something that looks like a cheap prop from Lost in Space.  Where my heart was leaning was more traditional.  The  Heritage pattern from Boyd’s in their bottom end Walnut was perfect.   It arrived about a week early, and I just got it switched out.

Here is a Before and After look.

Before: 

TC Compass 7mm-08 Original

After:

TC Compass 7mm-08 in new Boyd's Walnut Stock

This was a drop-in fit.  I did not need to do anything except switch out the screws with the ones provided.