Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Wood VS Synthetic

I have been killing animals with stocks made of wood, painted synthetics, and painted laminated wood.

This year I got a factory rifle, Kimber 84 Hunter with injection molded stock. When I buy rifle I usually remove any of the injected stocks and throwing them away. I can't see yet how to replace this one, so I may try to use it.

It's just a shame that some of you didn't at least once screw a hot chick, else wood wouldn't be so attractive to you. Luckily I banged my share of ugly chicks, so synthetics bother me not....

People think in terms of 9 day seasons, sitting in a deer stand, and hunting. Rifles can and should be used for a lot more than that and more often than 2 weeks in November.

Hasn't anyone here carried a rifle damn near year in, year out?

Nice, but I still need a functional rifle, not a swelled up piece of shiet.

This one looked great in the fire pit

Its a tool, bye wood

Looks like poor grain flow through the grip. Got a closer pic? top and bottom as well.

I got over wood stocks 25 years ago after I finished one for my 250Ackley. I still have it and hunt with it. Also, my Dad's Mauser in 7x57 has a Bishop stock on it and I would never change it. However, I've not bought one since and don't plan to. When one pays a great deal of money to hunt one doesn't won't to sit thru a rainstorm and then worry the rest of the week...did my stock warp, am I still zeroed? Fiberglass and bedding don't warp. powdr

I love carrying fine old shotguns for daily bird hunting. I love wood stocked rifles for my Africa hunts. I use nice composite stocked rifles for mountain and bad weather hunts. Each has it's place.

I'd rather go synth and have it film dipped in wood grain pattern.

Most of my 'roo rifles had wood stocks which didn't seem to cause me any problems, I found that the synthetic stocks on the Remington VSSF wore through on the dash whereas the wood forends did not, they just wear flat.

I love an English walnut stock with lots of marble cake figure. Crotch black walnut is beautiful also.
But they cost $3-5 grand when you start with a blank. And the first major scratch lowers the value a lot.
So with very few exceptions, I’m staying with synthetic.
I do have some shotguns with great wood. They don’t see rifle scabbards in the mountains, or four wheelers in a rack or other adventures that’s going to reduce their value a lot.
A friend of mine used to ask, “ do you want a pretty shotgun, or one you can hunt with”? My answer was both, pissed him off.