Brown Precision claims that their stocks have a little bit of flex and that soaks up recoil, and in my experience that is true. I�ve fired the same rifles - .30-06, .308 and .243, in wooden Remington BDL stocks and then the Brown classic, and the same rifle, same load, gives less subjective recoil in the much lighter Brown stock.
Certainly the shape of the stock could contribute to that and it would be almost impossible to attribute a given percentage of the reduction to the material or the shape, but this is something I�ve definitely noticed for whatever reason.
