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Post by terminator on Oct 23, 2010 7:08:37 GMT -5
Just curious to what type of rifle stocks you guy's like the most and why? I like the the composite and laminates very well, but it is really hard to beat the beauty of a real hardwood stock! What ya think???
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Post by passinthru on Oct 24, 2010 6:41:41 GMT -5
I am a wood guy all the way. I just dont like the feel of the composites. Even though i do own a couple i prefer the look and feel of a nice walnut stock.
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Post by JD on Oct 24, 2010 9:01:11 GMT -5
To me, I love seeing a beautiful piece of wood on a rifle. But for hunting, it has to be laminate or synthetic. I don't quit hunting if it is humid/raining/sleeting/snowing and I want to know that my rifle will put the bullet in the same spot no matter what condition.
The first rifle I bought was a Remington 700 Classic. It had a high blue sporter barrel, and a fine piece of blondish colored walnut. Even in the sporter configuration, that rifle would shoot under 1/2", some days. On humid/rainy/cold days not only would the groups open up to double size, but it would also through random fliers sometimes several inches out. This is at 10o yards. Imagine how far it would have been off at 2-300 yards.
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Post by bertman on Oct 24, 2010 21:52:29 GMT -5
Hard to beat the wood.
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Post by passinthru on Oct 26, 2010 5:57:31 GMT -5
So Jd the weather was making your 700 change the way it shot? Ive never heard of that before. Was it the wood stock or something else that would cause this?  |
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Post by terminator on Oct 26, 2010 6:24:20 GMT -5
So Jd the weather was making your 700 change the way it shot? Ive never heard of that before. Was it the wood stock or something else that would cause this? Wood is porous and will expand when it gets wet. This can cause deviations in the barrels harmonics during a shot. |
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Post by buckfever on Oct 26, 2010 20:01:27 GMT -5
i love the look of a quality walnut stock, but hunting with them makes me nervous about getting them scratched. synthetic stocks are great for hunting, but accuracy can be sacrifice if the foreend is flemsy like most of them are. i'm planning on getting the remington sps tactical and it has a better stock than most in the hogue, but i'll consier upgrading to some sort of laminate later on.
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Post by allhunter on Oct 26, 2010 21:10:07 GMT -5
wood is cool but really i like both
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Post by passinthru on Oct 27, 2010 7:00:18 GMT -5
So Jd the weather was making your 700 change the way it shot? Ive never heard of that before. Was it the wood stock or something else that would cause this? Wood is porous and will expand when it gets wet. This can cause deviations in the barrels harmonics during a shot. I guess i never noticed any difference from weather. I understand that wood does swell and shrink just never knew it affected accuracy. Still love my wood!!! |
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Post by oldzimm on Oct 30, 2010 15:24:14 GMT -5
I like to see wood on rifles, but when the weather is wet and miserable one of my synthetic stock rifles are the gun of the day.
To be honest before I owned a synthetic stocked rifle, I can't remember of missing a shot because of my gun being wet. Most of my misses I can blame on human error (me) LOL, I call it out thinking my shot.
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Post by grassi25 on Nov 16, 2010 19:52:05 GMT -5
I have a synthetic and stainless for bad weather. But I love wood stock and a high gloss barrell. I love how with wood stocks, though thousands are made the wood can have its own character with each diff gun.
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