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Not a big fan of plywood myself, unless its the only option over milk-jug plastic.

I asked a well know stock maker about plywood and stability. He told me that its no more stable than a well dried piece of walnut and still moves (at least Rutland). He uses both materials for his stocks. Not what I wanted to hear hunting and shooting in the coastal rainforest.

I tried to install mine and the action screws provided are the wrong thread pitch.

Not as bad as the flimsy factory stock by Fisher Price.

Methinks your well known stockmaker prefers to work with/sell high grade walnut stocks. Yes, inadequately sealed laminates will still absorb/expell moisture and therefore will still shrink/swell, just as inadequately sealed walnut will do, but the laminate is much less prone to warpage.

He makes them out of whatever wood the customer chooses and doesn't steer one way or the other. You can send your own blank.

When I contacted him about a plywood stock, I had assumed that the material would be stable in a wet environment. He wasn't trying to sell me walnut, he was being honest about plywood not being as stable as I'd hoped.