Thread: Wooden versus Composite Stocks

There’s a huge variety of synthetic stocks, from cheap plastic thru to high tech carbon fibre or fibreglass/composite stocks. So it depends what you wish to achieve in changing stocks and what kind of hunting or shooting you intend. The main advantage of synthetic is they stand up to knocks & moisture better without same risk in change to PoI that can effect wood stocks in wet conditions. Most people change because they want to save weight & have a very stable platform. For this you are best to go with carbon fibre stocks. If you don’t want weight savings but a better & stable platform then the composite stocks like Bell&Carson or HS Precision make very good stocks. I’d avoid cheap “plastic” stocks like the plague, the fore end is often too floppy to allow accurate shots off a bipod.