I picked up a standard Hawkeye synthetic stock to compare "felt" recoil to the skeleton stock. Both have Limbsaver pads on them for the LOP increase along with the other obvious reasons. The old zytels are as tough as they come and I appreciate their ugly utilitarian nature. I disliked the factory issued Hogue very much.
I will shoot a 3 shot group with the Zytel and then swap the barreled action into the Hawkeye synthetic and fire another group of three. We'll see if one noticeably thumps me less.
IME the boat paddle will kick harder. It won’t give like the synthetic, is pretty stiff.
I had one on a Mk II SS ‘06. I put a Limbsaver pad on it as the OEM pad was hard as a brick. I didn’t like the longer LOP and how it worked with scopes.
My son does EBay sales, sold it for $385. I bought a laminated Boyd classic for $150, drilled out the butt stock, cut off enough wood to take 40 oz down to 32 oz. I like it better than the Zytel. But the Boatpaddle is really tough.
DF
