why synthetic stocks?
03-02-2008, 01:24 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: why synthetic stocks?
Practical on both sides of the coin - manufacturer's can produce a cheaper end user product and the end user has a product that is practical and take less care.
Personally I like wood better but can't deny the practical benefits of synthetics either. I have both but my most used rifles are wood or laminate stocked...the only exception my Rem 700 MLS. It been a gem the only thingI have done is reduce the trigger pull.
Personally I like wood better but can't deny the practical benefits of synthetics either. I have both but my most used rifles are wood or laminate stocked...the only exception my Rem 700 MLS. It been a gem the only thingI have done is reduce the trigger pull.
03-02-2008, 05:23 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Eastern Iowa
Posts: 1,021
RE: why synthetic stocks?
ORIGINAL: wabi
I have to agree!
I really do not find them ugly - I find them functional especially in the weather that I hunt in.
For show, I would much rather have a beautiful wood stock on the gun, but I am not sure I would want to submitt it to the wear and tear of hunting in the rain, snow, sun and cold.
For show, I would much rather have a beautiful wood stock on the gun, but I am not sure I would want to submitt it to the wear and tear of hunting in the rain, snow, sun and cold.
03-03-2008, 11:05 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 1,081
RE: why synthetic stocks?
I have a Marlin 30-30 that has a wood stock on it. Many years ago a friend of a friend borrowed it for a whitetail hunt, when I got it back it had a lot of scratches on both the forearm and stock. Since then all the guns I have bought (except the GPR and the new White Laminate) have been synthetic stocked. I don't have to worry about scratches and they don't hang on the wall so they don't have to look good, just function good.
