Synthetic stocks - I just can't do it!
11-18-2009, 09:51 PM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
I prefer wood and choice given I'll pick it everytime. However are certain rifles and uses where syth. stocks just make more sense, so own a couple of them as well. Your money & your situation so you make the call!
11-19-2009, 08:26 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Southern Louisiana
Posts: 304
I'm in my mid sixties and would guess most of you have had a lot more hunting and shooting experience than Iv'e had. Iv'e hunted a little here and there most my life, but mostly woodchucks and varmints, but had to add my two cents worth on this subject. Having never had the opportunity to take a good rifle out in harsh weather or rough conditions, my small select collection looks real good. The few times in a gun store that Iv'e even held a synthetic stocked rifle, it didn't even feel right. My rifles are in a glass fronted gun case and I can't imagine showing them to a friend or co-worker and basking in their ohhs and ahhs over black plastic? No thanks, everyone of my good looking wood stocked rifles shoots very well, plenty accurate enough for hunting and a couple of them are real eye candy. I completely understand wringing the last ounce of accuracy out of a rifle and I'll admit the synthetics are a more stable material, but you still have to look at them. I will also admit it's very rewarding to put the gun down, look thru the spotting scope and see one ragged hole downrange.----------John
Smartass.
