Stocks

[DaveyCrink]

What do you prefer? i really like the look of synthetic. not much of a wooden person. What about you?

 

[tradertator]

Depends on the platform. Most of my stuff is some form of synthetic, but I've got my fair share of pretty Elmur Fuddish stuff.

 

[Jay]

Likely a combination of my age, and personal preference, but I don't ever see plastic as being remotely comparable to beautifully grained wood.

 

[gabrigger]

Plastic is functional, but can't compare to the looks of nice wood.

 

[sgreen3]

I like them both but more of my rifles are synthetic

 

[Zephri]

I love wood (insert pun here) on bolt guns and certain auto-loading rifles and carbines (think com-block whatever that means..), don't think I've ever had a bolt gun without a wood stock.

I enjoy plastic on certain platforms such as the AR-15s or shotguns.

Oh yeah, I don't baby my wood either! XD

 

[Gabriel]

Depends on the platform.

This. I like nice wood on some of my rifles, but others get synthetic. It just depends on the rifle and it's purpose.

 

[Yeah]

For a fair weather fun gun I like highly figured walnut. But for a hunting gun that has to make it through some weather things are different.

Almost all plastic stocks are best melted back down into milk jugs. Of the few that aren't I'll take McMillan every time, usually a Classic or Sako Hunter pattern and lately with edge fill. Unless it's a boomer and then a sniper filled HTG is the ticket. Or a heavy, where an A5 is nice. I like some of what Manners does but I don't snuggle up to any of his patterns as well and his inlets are sometimes less perfect than McM. Brown Precision makes a solid stock if you are tripping over money and need to get rid of some.

I broke the only MPI stock I ever owned and after pawing through its remains I'll not have another.

B&C carbelites can sometimes be found on the used market for a right price, but for what they run new there are better options. Like laminate, which is hard to beat on a budget. It is stiff, and does OK against weather, and can be easily shaped for fit. Weight is its Achilles heel.

 

[ZWolf]

Wood stocks are mostly for looks, and looks don't do a whole lot. It's whatever feels right on the gun and what you're used to IMHO.
Most of my guns have Choate synthetic stocks on them though because my dad worked there and that's what I'm used to.

 

[Cerberus]

The only thing I have against synthetic stocks is they are usually black.

 

[badmac183]

Plastic is functional, but can't compare to the looks of nice wood.

This is the correct answer.

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

Like the old cars .... do people call guns with wood stocks woodys?

 

[forkliftdave]

I like the wood on my old guns. My newer ones have the synthetic. Accuracy will improve with a good aftermarket synthetic stock full floating but they can double the price you have in the gun

 

[SSGSAD]

The only thing I have against synthetic stocks is they are usually black.

Usually, sometimes green .....

 

[Yeah]

Sometimes swirly

 

[451_Detonics]

wood is nice...