Laminate or Synthetic stock

[lovemylegacy]

I have plans to purchase a new Model 700, the 1st thing I will do is replace the stock. What say the Green Screen gurus, Laminate or Synthetic?

[Wiley719]

Laminate

[WCB]

I'm not a guru but love the looks of a good lam!!

[Slick8]

I have both and will say for day in and day out hunting I prefer a quality composite stock. Too me this starts at about $200 for a B&C and goes up from there. I'm kicking around a McMillian for my Sako 85 ($500). The Sako factory plastic stock infused with fibers is functional but ugly. I then make sure it's free floated and bed the action. It's the workin stock, water, heat, in and out of the truck no problem.

I do have laminates and I'm currently working up a large heavy bench rest thrumbhole for a sav mod 10. It will be a looker when completed.

JMO....

Good luck, no looser here.

[Coach W]

http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/produc...=8405&cat=1221

Pick a color, any color. 99 bucks plus shipping.

[RPB]

go to Stockys gun stocks, They have a nice laminate with an aluminum bedding block in it. I have a choate ultimate varmint, it isn't pretty but has a full length aluminum stock from forend to but, very impressive, I like it. good price also

[westtexducks]

The working rifles are in synthetic stocks, the pretty ones that get taken out every once in awhile to shoot something are in laminates.

[trophy8]

Depends what your gonna do with it. If I'm wanting a gun that I take for whitetails and sit in a blind, then I want a nice looking wood or laminate stock. If I'm going to be walking alot, resting it on trees, rocks, etc and having it open to any of the elements, then synthetic all day every day.

[lovemylegacy]

Good info, Thanx. Leaning toward a Lam.

[Coach W]

The working rifles are in synthetic stocks, the pretty ones that get taken out every once in awhile to shoot something are in laminates.

Depends what your gonna do with it. If I'm wanting a gun that I take for whitetails and sit in a blind, then I want a nice looking wood or laminate stock. If I'm going to be walking alot, resting it on trees, rocks, etc and having it open to any of the elements, then synthetic all day every day.

Aww y'all are wusses scared of scratching a laminate...

Tru oil that bad boy, if you ever need to fix it just get a touch more tru oil and fix it right up. If you scratch it too deep, get some fine sandpaper or steel wool on it first, then tru oil...

Synthetic stocks get scratched too... Can't sand that out.

I've been carrying a laminate Thumbhole in the woods since I was a teen. I will admit that first scratch really ****** you off... But you don't notice the rest... What good is a rifle you don't use.

[lovemylegacy]

laminate it is.....Mods you may delete the thread. Thanx everyone

[westtexducks]

Aww y'all are wusses scared of scratching a laminate...

Tru oil that bad boy, if you ever need to fix it just get a touch more tru oil and fix it right up. If you scratch it too deep, get some fine sandpaper or steel wool on it first, then tru oil...

Synthetic stocks get scratched too... Can't sand that out.

I've been carrying a laminate Thumbhole in the woods since I was a teen. I will admit that first scratch really ****** you off... But you don't notice the rest... What good is a rifle you don't use.

Something else I would add is the fact that most laminates are heavy compared to a synthetic stock, so if I am going to be hauling the .270 around it wears the black stock, if it is going in the truck to the blind it wears the pretty thumbhole stock or if it is just going to be shot at paper it wears the thumbhole. I am not to terribly **** about scratches but when I know it is going to be a rough day for the rifle why not put the more durable stock on it? It would be like taking a 69 mustang deer hunting through the mesquites getting scratched when my beat up bronco will do the job better.

[cbrown]

The older I get the more I lean towards laminate or wood stocks. To me the scratches tell the story an remind you of the hunts that caused them.

[Bily Lovec]

Something else I would add is the fact that most laminates are heavy compared to a synthetic stock, so if I am going to be hauling the .270 around it wears the black stock, if it is going in the truck to the blind it wears the pretty thumbhole stock or if it is just going to be shot at paper it wears the thumbhole. I am not to terribly **** about scratches but when I know it is going to be a rough day for the rifle why not put the more durable stock on it? It would be like taking a 69 mustang deer hunting through the mesquites getting scratched when my beat up bronco will do the job better.

thats why I no longer have any laminates.
the Rifle is a tool. The best tool for this job will be synthetic.

[SuperDave]

One thing that hasn't been brought up is the heavier laminate stock will reduce felt recoil and decrease vertical lift. Something to think about if you plan on shooting it a lot.
Just my $0.02.