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Your rifle's stock is your primary contact point with the launch platform that kills your quarry. Choose wisely. Here's how.
- Wood & Laminate wood stocks
- Proven, aesthetic, easy to work with & accurize
- Susceptible to changes in moisture
- Injection-molded composites
- Cheap plastic
- Better quality "glass-filled nylon"
- Overly flexible
- Hard to glass bed & accurize
- Susceptible to extremes in temperature
- High-end carbon-fiber stocks
- Carbon fiber lightest & most rigid
- Easy to glass bed & accurize
- Extremely strong
- Lightest material available
- Impervious to both moisture and temperature shifts
- Expensive
- Chassis-type stocks
- Ultimately configurable
- Many can be folded for easy packing
- Heavy, cold to the touch
- Snaggy in brush
- Noisy when bumped
- Best for hunting are new magnesium/carbon fiber
- Keep screws tight
- Expensive
PLUS:
- Stock shapes for ergonomics & performance
- How to get the best from your stock in real-world use
- How to pick a replacement stock for a production rifle
- How to select a stock for a custom rifle build
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