Did see aluminum and cut around it.
The best way to describe the difference is to compare the better stocks to a sheet of plywood and the B&C to a sheet of particle board.
The better stocks laminate fiberglass cloth sheets with epoxy. B&C uses chopped fiberglass mixed with plastic.
While both building materials use wood as the raw material, there is a huge difference in how they are put together.
B&C uses fiberglass in their stocks, but there is a huge difference in how they are put together compared to the better stocks.
They are not an improvement over most of the factory plastic stocks, even though they may appear to be nicer finished on the outside.
I am pretty sure that the gel coat is first sprayed into a mold , followed up with roving and then shot with a chopper gun that is using chopped fiberglass roving(that is what a chopper gun uses) and then the aluminum chassis is put in place. Probably 80% or more of watercraft are built this way and they are a lot more demanding then a rifle stock. Just saying
