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Stocks
montanajoe
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What's your favorite type of stock for a rifle?
I prefer wood with nice checkering. The old Remington 700's as an example.
Synthetic stocks- depends on how it looks on the gun. Solid black I can do.
Never cared for any thumbhole stock. They just don't look right.
Also don't care a stock to have a real high cheek rest.
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Can't go wrong with a nice walnut stock, hate those laminated plywood looking stock especially those that have different colors imbedded.
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Unless it is made of wood, preferably walnut, it should not be considered a stock.
Yup wood for me
Synthetics definitely have their place and purpose but a nicely figured walnut stock with deep blued steel is the pinnacle of a fine looking rifle. I prefer wood.
Walnut, no checkering.
I never understood camouflage stocks. If you set you gun down to take a leak, how would you find it?
Your rifle, I mean.
Kind of like the laminates . Think I may change out my howa to one. My preference would be walnut but my rifles are tools that go to work . A few scratches and such are no big deal
The majority of the rifles and all the shotguns I have are checkered walnut. In fact, I am guilty of buying a gun or two just because I really liked the stock. There is something to be said for the stability of laminated stocks though. I have a Win 70 300WSM that has their factory laminated stock. Also, a couple of Winchester coyote mode 70s that I have shot a ton of prairie dogs with that have laminated stocks. I appreciate the functionality of those stocks but they won't win any beauty contests. Lastly, I have a Weatherby Super Varmint that IMHO, hands down has the ugliest factory rifle stock ever made. That kind of cream colored synthetic with the black spiderwebbing added on for texture. Fortunately, looking through the scope I can't see the gun just the little teeny tiny groups it makes on the target. Bob
Browning the early ones had the glossy and dull finishes and have some darn fine wood. Course if you look at a Browning stock cross-eyed it gets a ding.
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I am a big fan of traditional blue and walnut hard to beat the looks of a nice classic look
But I also have a place for plastic and fiberglass stocks hard to beat durability and like a old work car a ding scratch not a heartbreaking event
Definitely wood for me. Not just walnut either. Some very fine gunstocks are made from maple and ash. Cherry wood is nice too!
Only an adjustable length of pull and cheek piece on a sniper rifle. Wife has a Steyr 25/06 black synthetic with adjustable shims for length of pull. It is 12.5". HK o/u birdgun has a cast off wood stock . Rest of firearms are mixed synthetic and wood.
I don't care as long as the rifle shoots well. In Alaska my BAR MkII in 338 win mag had the nice Browning wood as it came from the factory. My 30-06 a sporterized 1903A3 had a cheap plastic stock that worked well in the arctic conditions. My SS Winchester 70 in 338 win mag had the Houge overmolded stock and it was great in wet conditions or the arctic. Taking care of good wood in those horrid conditions is very hard to do.
Walnut, particularly fancy dark walnut with a nice patina. The varnish they use today is not like the varnish they use to make, more of a plastic. A good old type varnish takes time to dry and in the process is absorbed better into the wood.
Thumbhole stocks are great off a bench or maybe in a stand, but they are useless for still hunting, they are difficult to carry as there is only a single position for your hand. Though I am not crazy about the looks, California roll over stocks fit me the best.
Not a fan of plastic stocks on rifles, wood on the other hand really makes a rifle a thing of beauty.
Since I'm not a hunter, the weather is of no concern, that would be about the only use for a plastic stocked rifle in my opinion.
Mine are all tools. If they get the job done, we keep them.
Synthetic and stainless for an all weather rifle.
Wood and blued for good weather.
The latter is much prettier.
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Being a lifetime wood "nut"......I've always liked nice figure for my Sako L461 actioned rifles.
Properly 1/4 sawn a big bonus.
I like it. Understated and classy.
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Thank you gentlemen, but you're way to kind. Much as i would liked, my name would never be synonymous with Shellhammer.
That was one I turned out when I had my back and pelvis jacked up. Too much time on my hands 'cause I couldn't go to work.
If you ever need top class stock blank for a special project Cecil Fredi in Las Vegas is the man to call. He understood just what I was looking for when we spoke on the phone. Properly quarter sawn, upturn in the fore end and just a touch of broken fiddleback.
Here's the other side of my Polished Turd. I wish I'd had a better digital camera for these images. I tried to sharpen this one, but you can only do so much with a lousy image.
Very nice
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