No more Wood?

[Laguna Freak]

Hi, I'm very new to this so please excuse my ignorance, but are wooden stocks a thing of the past? I know they are still in use, but just about everything and everybody has gone to either a composite or injection molded stock.
I've been reading a great deal because I intend to purchase a bolt action. Mostly target some hunting.
So in my research i have decided that injection molded stocks are not what I want, just the hand paid-up type.
But I love wood... So is wood really that much of a problem?
I like the Winchester Featherweight and Vanguard Sporter....Featherweight is free floated and bedded.
Your opinions are really valuable.
TY, R-Dog.

This is a group shot September 2020 with a bullet that many unenlightened folks poo-poo (Swift Scirocco II) out of a 2001 Winchester Model 70 300 WSM Featherweight that has been pillared and bedded.

You decide...

 

[Vettepilot]

When my son turned 21 I gave him his choice of the following Jim Cloward rifles. All pre-war Model 70s. JK Cloward is no longer working. Possibly the finest maker of Hi-Power competition rifles, armourer for the 2007 Palma team. He is blind with macular degeneration. I'm just an old fashioned oldster!
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OH MY GOD!!! Those are SO beautiful. Would you adopt me??? ;~)

You're son is a lucky man! Which one did he choose? The bottom one is my favorite. (Hint, hint....) ;~)

Very, very nice! No, that doesn't begin to cover it. STUPENDOUS?? Wow!

Vettepilot

 

[Nathan gravitt]

Gotta love wood! Being a carpenter by trade I sure do

 

[Lefty G-gear]

Hi, I'm very new to this so please excuse my ignorance, but are wooden stocks a thing of the past? I know they are still in use, but just about everything and everybody has gone to either a composite or injection molded stock.
I've been reading a great deal because I intend to purchase a bolt action. Mostly target some hunting.
So in my research i have decided that injection molded stocks are not what I want, just the hand paid-up type.
But I love wood... So is wood really that much of a problem?
I like the Winchester Featherweight and Vanguard Sporter....Featherweight is free floated and bedded.
Your opinions are really valuable.
TY, R-Dog.

I got a Boyds At-One 'Pepper Laminated' stock for the SS Model 7 in 7mm SAUM, 24-inch barrel.
Then, a Platinum Laminate 'Forest Camo' for the Mossberg Patriot in 6.5 PRC, detachable mag.

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FOREST CAMO LAMINATE PREMIUM
Yep. A Lefty cheek piece on a Right-hand action (option).

 

[sw282]

Life is too short to hunt with an ugly rifle.

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Amen for WOOD

Like Daddy used to say, ''Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly is to the B O N E''

 

[DJ Fergus]

For the past 30 years or more, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life etc.. helped sell the idea of plastic stocks over wood. I'm not convinced from an accuracy standpoint that plastic is superior to wood. If kept dry or if sealed, a wood stock will be a lot better option than plastic.

 

[Laguna Freak]

I got a Boyds At-One 'Pepper Laminated' stock for the SS Model 7 in 7mm SAUM, 24-inch barrel.
Then, a Platinum Laminate 'Forest Camo' for the Mossberg Patriot in 6.5 PRC, detachable mag.

Shop Hardwood Gunstocks | Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks

From grips and handguards to buttstocks and forends, Boyds offers thousands of gunstocks designed to fit hundreds of firearm brands and styles.

www.boydsgunstocks.com

FOREST CAMO LAMINATE PREMIUM
Yep. A Lefty cheek piece on a Right-hand action (option).

Thats purty.

I know a right handed guy that shoots his rifles lefty. Cuz he only has 1 eye...

 

[R-Dog]

For the past 30 years or more, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life etc.. helped sell the idea if plastic stocks over wood. I'm not convinced from an accuracy standpoint that plastic is superior to wood. If kept dry or if sealed, a wood stock will be a lot better option than plastic.

Thank you....see I have recently moved to Washington state. Two of my step sons hunt and I think it might be cool to try it out. That and the idea of meat sounds good. But mostly I think I'll be at either the range or way back in the hills somewhere shooting various targets.
One son is all composite, the other only has wood.
So, I'm looking around and asking opinions of the more experienced.

 

[Buzzsaw]

Pretty wood, properly bedded with a great barrel, great trigger and decent shooter will be very accurate.

 

[Johnny blade]

MY sako in 7 stw

 

[CaptDru]

Here is my Remington LSS stock that I had pillars installed and bedded the action. Shoots pretty good. Weighs exactly 2lbs. So its lighter than some composite stocks. I love the look of laminate compared to composite stocks.

 

[skipglo]

Hi, I'm very new to this so please excuse my ignorance, but are wooden stocks a thing of the past? I know they are still in use, but just about everything and everybody has gone to either a composite or injection molded stock.
I've been reading a great deal because I intend to purchase a bolt action. Mostly target some hunting.
So in my research i have decided that injection molded stocks are not what I want, just the hand paid-up type.
But I love wood... So is wood really that much of a problem?
I like the Winchester Featherweight and Vanguard Sporter....Featherweight is free floated and bedded.
Your opinions are really valuable.
TY, R-Dog.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Nothing like an engraved or inletted wooden stock.....or just great walnut.....but when you have them and I have many the true downfall isn't Do they Swell.....it's when you scratch them or ding them......and you will! Then you'll probably want to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick!

 

[Bruce Treloar]

I built an 8 1/2 Hunter Class benchrest rifle that doubled as a field rifle in 1978. It's all carbon including the pillars. I shot it about 4 times per year in competition and every second weekend in the field. The scope adjustments were never touched until recently because of scope lens separation. That is what a well made carbon stock is all about, no changing point of impact.
I had so much confidence in this rifle that I never ever had to check the zero before a hunt. Imagine the extra barrel life and saving on components. There are very few composite stock builders making extra strong stiff products, most are skimping on reinforcement and using eye catching weaves.

 

[R-Dog]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Nothing like an engraved or inletted wooden stock.....or just great walnut.....but when you have them and I have many the true downfall isn't Do they Swell.....it's when you scratch them or ding them......and you will! Then you'll probably want to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick!

LOL. thanks...swelling is why people say not to get one...but the scratch may be worse.