How has McMillan improved its stocks over the last 50 years?

McMillan started in 1973 when Gale McMillan began building stocks for his own benchrest matches, using fiberglass and a hand layered process from day one. Since then, we’ve refined that process, layering glass cloth by hand and curing it under heat and pressure, which adds strength, reduces weight, and eliminates voids that spray methods leave behind. In 2004, we designed our first carbon fiber stock, the Hunter’s Edge, bringing a lighter, stiffer shell material option into the lineup without changing how we build, still hand-layered, still made the hard way. We’ve developed proprietary fill systems for different demands, from our Standard fill to Sniper and Magnum fills for heavy calibers, to our Edge Tech ultralight carbon fiber  fill matrix. When the extreme long-range community needed a stock that could handle the torque and recoil of the biggest calibers at two miles and beyond, we built the ELR Beast. We keep evolving our proven models too. The Game Warden 2.0 took our best-selling long-range hunting stock and improved it based on real shooter feedback, adding a taller negative sloping comb for larger objective scopes and integrated thumb-shelves for more repeatable hand placement. We’ve continued to release new models, most recently the Mountain Tracker, along with new finishes through our Special Edition Pre-Order Program. Over 50 years of innovation that earn the results.