I am guilty of doing this on my Rugers especially...
I have a couple of those Boat paddle stocks...a couple of factory laminates and a couple of Boyd's Laminate stocks..plus a couple of Hogue Rubber Stocks...
That is for both long and short action Rugers, of which I own about 8 in total...
I admit before hunting season each year, I set up a couple and sort of grab which one is going to fit where I hunt and what weather the day may bring..
if it is clear and I am going to be walking up and down a lot of hill sides, then I'll probably grab the Zytel boat paddle rifle..
if the weather is going to be crap and I'll be in and out of a lot of brush, I'll grab the rifle I have a Hogue Rubber stock on..
if it is a bright sunny down, and I'll be doing a lot of slow walking and spotting, I'll probably grab one with the Laminate stock on it..
I change these Rugers around all the time..
I have a Model 70 short action, I do switch barrels on..
I have 4 different stocks for that one..
the factory wood one, that came with the factory 243 barrel..
then I can change the bolt and put a heavy magnum barrel on it and chambered in 223, and use either a Hogue Rubber Stock or a Boyd's thumbhole laminate on it..
or I can put a 260 Rem Barrel on it, that is also heavy magnum contoured.. currently that is wearing a Win Factory Synthetic stock...
the first stock came on the rifle.. the Boyd's I paid $100 for, from Boyd's...the Hogue, I bought on the Campfire Classifieds for $50 shipped..and the Synthetic Factory Stock, a friend gave me that for free... he wanted a Mickey stock on his instead...
so I don't have a ton of money tied up into the flexibility..
