The old synthetic stocks were pretty dag gone flimsy. The new synthetic stocks are betterthan the old ones, but not like H-S, McMillan, etc., thatmost seem to think of when you mention synthetic stocks, for some reason. I have had several Savage and Remingtons thru the shop in the past couple months or so, and the Savage stocks are just as good as the synthetic Remington M700 ADL stock, in fact they look and feelvery much similar.