Walnut or synthetic stock

[angler]

Pards: need input! Have a chance to purchase a rifle! Question is: walnut stock or synthetic stock! Rifle with walnut is $200.00 more than synthetic! Input would be greatly appreciated!

[gregintenn]

Personal preference. I like walnut.

[K191145]

Pards: need input! Have a chance to purchase a rifle! Question is: walnut stock or synthetic stock! Rifle with walnut is $200.00 more than synthetic! Input would be greatly appreciated!

 

Are you going to tote it through the woods a lot? A rifle that may get scratched and wet? Go polymer with matt finish receiver and barrel then. Just what I would do but everyone to their own. Now for pretty I like walnut.

Edited December 23, 2015 by K191145

[Pete123]

Depending on the model and use of the rifle, I might get the synthetic and take the extra money and get a laminated stock. 

 

I think laminate looks really cool.  Also, you would have many different stock styles to pick from.

 

Here is a link to one of the laminate manufacturers.

 

http://www.rifle-stocks.com/laminated_woods.htm

[peejman]

Depends on the intended use. If it's likely to get used hard in bad weather, plastic all the way. If you want something pretty, definitely wood.

[hipower]

For all the above reasons...for use, synthetic. For pretty rifle....walnut all the way!

[KaNaPaPi]

I'd go with synthetic, then get a "boyd's gun stock" in laminate.

[frankmako]

what are you going to use the rifle for?   that will tell you what type of stock to get.  these days you have many stocks.  not like it was many mango season ago, all you had was a wood stock. 

[bigun]

They make something other than Walnut? Can yo tell I'm old? :rofl:

[No_0ne]

Real guns are made from steel, real stocks are made from wood ...

[Possumslayer]

Wood...... Old school

[MP5_Rizzo]

^^^^^^^^^^^^ What the previous two said.  Basically your going to get every opinion under the sun given enough post.  What it comes down to is that it's your money and it will be your gun so really it's a matter of what you like and your budget.  Now if you give more exact detail on purpose and intent, your still going to get every possible opinion under the sun. My :2cents: .

[Smith]

What gun? What's the intended use? Answer those questions and you will answer your original question.

[Caster]

Are you gonna look at it and take it to the range, OR, are you gonna put it to work?  For work in the fields and thickets, wood sucks.  Beautiful to behold when lovingly crafted, it scratches easily, susceptible to moisture, cracking and warpage.  Synthetic is impervious to moisture and elements, scratches mean little as they are nothing to look at in the first place.  

[xsubsailor]

 The only long gun I have without a wooden stock is an AR and I just haven't figured out how to put one on it.  :cool:

[angler]

Parts: thanks for all the input! I am going to go with wood! Use mostly at range!

[MP5_Rizzo]

 The only long gun I have without a wooden stock is an AR and I just haven't figured out how to put one on it.  :cool:

 

It just takes money and a few basic tools.

 

http://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/stock-forend-parts/furniture-sets/ar-15-m16-wood-stock-sets-prod38906.aspx

[Garufa]

Parts: thanks for all the input! I am going to go with wood! Use mostly at range!

 

Walnut wins....as it should.

[runco]

Unless you are a hunter that hunts in all types of weather, go with wood!  I too am old school, all my long guns except one 22 and the ARs are wood!  With that said, I wouldn't care to have a Remington 700 in stainless and synthetic.

Edited December 23, 2015 by runco