i am looking for some info :

if you had to buy a new stock for a rifle ( besides synth, comp and other plastics ) what kind of stock would you go with.
i am curious between the laminate stock ( like a brwoning or a walnut ) what would be better for a stalking gun in wet and damp places?i was never a fan of the plastic or composite stocks.

Sorry but if you are going to do a lot of hunting in wet weather you may want to rethink the synthetic stock. I don' t like the looks of them either, I just don' t trust wood anymore, to much chance of point of impact shift in the field.
Some guys waterproof the ____ out of their wood stocks and free float the barrel and have no problems with wood however.
The laminates would be the compromise point I imagine. They usually weigh a little more than straight wood or synthetic, some of them look really nice however.
I don' t have one but hear they are much less likely to warp and swell than plain wood.

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You have different levels of laminated stocks and you have different levels of Tupper oops synthetic stocks.

Laminated stocks tend to be heavier with the exception of lets say an Acrabond stock which is walnut and weighs in the same as a Mcmillan synthetic. If a laminate is finished in an oil finish it will get a beating in really wet weather something finished in Polyurethane will endure much better and probably be trouble free...There will still be a bit of swelling in real wet weather with a Laminate irregardless of brand. Best of the Laminates is the Acrabond and the most common is the Boyds stock. The difference between the two is material and construction style...Acrabond is built on 4-5 laminations(Walnut jroughly 32 ounces finished) and the Boyd is built of hardwood and has more laminations and tends to run 1/2 pound heavier but is also 1/4 of the price when both are equally finished.

Any laminated fiberglass stock from High Tech,Borden(Rimrock) or Mcmillan are far superior to any laminated wood stock in really nasty wet weather. True laminated fiberglass stocks as a rule are generally stiffer than the injection moulded stocks that are a mainstay of the gun industry and therefore POI will not be affected as much as those with the flexible flyer foreend.


Aesthetically I like the laminated stocks from Acrabond, but if I were hunting in a constant deluge like Alaska etc you can bet there would be a real fiberglass stock on it.

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id get a laminated and im happy to see some else not interested in the plastic stocks besides me

Laminated. Good luck.

I have a mixture of both and where I hunt we get a lot of wet weather so I have become partial to the synthetics . I like wood stocks but I also know what water can do to them even the laminates . I only hunt with the synthetics now and the weather isn' t a problem like it used t be .

I own all types of stocks but the laminated is my favorite...

Laminated are more stable than other wood but a quality synthetic like a mcmillan is still the strongest and most stable stock available.