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Thrash a nice wood stock hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 3047750" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>My first 3+ decades of hunting, I used walnut stocks exclusively. While I switched about 20 years ago to synthetics when I extended my hunting range beyond 500 yards, I would still very much prefer a a wood stock by a wide margin simply for the beauty and feel…which,IMO, improves with use and age. As much as I tried to set up my preferred style(sporter) walnut stocks on my LRH rifles I could not maintain the year to year consistency/precision that ai could achieve with a well bedded synthetic stock. I have tried glass, pillars, etc. on my wood stocks…but to no avail. I have been able to go multiple seasons without adjusting zero while maintaining sub .5 MOA accuracy and precision using the identical loads with a well bedded synthetic stock. For that reason my go-to LR hunters have synthetics…..But, they are sporter style….a small concession.</p><p>Fortunately, shotguns are a different story. I have never owned one with a synthetic stock, and likely never will…Just me…Must be the nature of an old fartt<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" />.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]548785[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]548787[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 3047750, member: 10291"] My first 3+ decades of hunting, I used walnut stocks exclusively. While I switched about 20 years ago to synthetics when I extended my hunting range beyond 500 yards, I would still very much prefer a a wood stock by a wide margin simply for the beauty and feel…which,IMO, improves with use and age. As much as I tried to set up my preferred style(sporter) walnut stocks on my LRH rifles I could not maintain the year to year consistency/precision that ai could achieve with a well bedded synthetic stock. I have tried glass, pillars, etc. on my wood stocks…but to no avail. I have been able to go multiple seasons without adjusting zero while maintaining sub .5 MOA accuracy and precision using the identical loads with a well bedded synthetic stock. For that reason my go-to LR hunters have synthetics…..But, they are sporter style….a small concession. Fortunately, shotguns are a different story. I have never owned one with a synthetic stock, and likely never will…Just me…Must be the nature of an old fartt🙄. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0489.jpeg"]548785[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_2262.jpeg"]548787[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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