Bassham's stock design

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:20 am

I finished re-reading "With Winning in Mind" again this weekend and was thinking about the stock Lanny designed for the 1976 Olympics -- why didn't more shooters use it before aluminum stocks came along?

Was it because it was from Walther and Anschutz was the dominant model? Or did folks not like the sloped forend? I've only ever shot the Anschutz design so I don't have any thing to compare it against.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember coming across many pictures of them.

Jason

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:39 am

They did. Malcolm Cooper also used a Walther GX-1 at the 1984 Olympics to take the 3x40 gold and again to defend his title at the '88 games.

Tim S
UK

jhawk · Post by **jhawk** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:07 pm

Anschutz also came out with a sloped forearm free rifle stock in 1976, the 1410, but it didn't catch on either. It was the same as the 1413 stock, except the forearm. I don't think they made it for very long.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:24 pm

Tim wrote:They did. Malcolm Cooper also used a Walther GX-1 at the 1984 Olympics to take the 3x40 gold and again to defend his title at the '88 games.

So that's what he was shooting. Thanks, Tim!

Jason

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:24 am

Anschutz also did a sloping forend in the 18 series, it was the 1810

Barney