View Poll Results: It's your choice!
A good quality synthetic stock in a color/pattern you like.
19
35.19%
A laminate stock in a color combination you like.
20
37.04%
A nicely figured (but not fancy) wood stock.
15
27.78%
Voters: 54. You may not vote on this poll
Stock Preference Poll
06-05-2012, 03:22 AM
#31
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Posts: 3,732
Keep in mind the oil finish used on rifle in Jack O'Connor day did not provide a 'seal'. Even though the outside of the walnut stock was finished, it wasn't 'sealed'. Them hand rubbed oil finished walnut stock, were pretty, but they were not 'sealed' from the weather.
06-05-2012, 04:25 AM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: southwest Ohio
Posts: 1,047
I voted synthetic.
I love the beauty of a real wood stock, and have owned several examples of nature's ability to create beauty over the years.
I could be "politically correct" and say I'm voting synthetic to protect the destruction of the forest, but in fact I'm sometimes careless and have been known to put a cosmetic blemish (scratch or dent) on a beautiful piece of wood. When this happens it haunts me for days that I was so careless and I'm guilt ridden over it.
With synthetic the material itself looks so lifeless and bland it possesses no real beauty to my eyes, so how is a scratch or dent going to damage it? I can take the synthetic stock to the fields & woods and treat it as rough as I like and it still looks no worse.
It will never look "beautiful".
I love the beauty of a real wood stock, and have owned several examples of nature's ability to create beauty over the years.
I could be "politically correct" and say I'm voting synthetic to protect the destruction of the forest, but in fact I'm sometimes careless and have been known to put a cosmetic blemish (scratch or dent) on a beautiful piece of wood. When this happens it haunts me for days that I was so careless and I'm guilt ridden over it.
With synthetic the material itself looks so lifeless and bland it possesses no real beauty to my eyes, so how is a scratch or dent going to damage it? I can take the synthetic stock to the fields & woods and treat it as rough as I like and it still looks no worse.
It will never look "beautiful".
06-05-2012, 06:18 AM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Posts: 2,976
I voted for a good quality synthetic stock, preferably in one of Mossy Oak's patterns. Im more into durability and ruggedness when it comes to a stock on a ML. Where I hunt it could be snowing, raining, hot or cold, all these conditions ar'nt good for wood or laminantes. Plus I never know where I'll end up the day Im hunting, it coud be in some thick stuff with briars, down a steep ravine, ect and I put my ML through some tough goings. So I need a good synthetic stock to hold up to the elements and all the other stuff It's put through.
At the end of the day and hunt I just wipe her clean and she's as good as new.
(BP)
At the end of the day and hunt I just wipe her clean and she's as good as new.
(BP)
06-05-2012, 10:00 AM
#36
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Slippery Rock, Pa.
Posts: 393
As long as a rifle doesn't have a cheap plastic bb gunstock.
My deer rifle wears a hs precision stock so its impervious to the elements, but you can't beat feel and warmth of wood, so i put a laminate stock in my 6br since it is a rifle i shoot the most.
My deer rifle wears a hs precision stock so its impervious to the elements, but you can't beat feel and warmth of wood, so i put a laminate stock in my 6br since it is a rifle i shoot the most.
