Its hard to give up on my wood stocks but I use my guns as tools to get a job done and they sure get banged up sometime. I call all my dents and scuffs "memories". I believe I would be a prime person to switch to a composite stock since I hunt hard in the mountains covered in snow and loose rocks. I hunt with a ruger number one which is prone to different points of impact depending on how long I have been out in the rain. I have never noticed my mk85 stock affecting accuracy at all and its a laminated wood stock.