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Stocks: Laminate wood vs composite
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<blockquote data-quote="Chopaka81" data-source="post: 342926" data-attributes="member: 9217"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Provided we exclude the injection molded (tupperware) stocks, the synthetic stocks are the most stable - errr in theory. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The modern wooden laminate stocks are vacuum impregnated and pressed together under very high pressure. It terms of stability, in theory they are less stable that synthetic stocks. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Does this theoretical loss in stability amount to a hill of beans? No.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I free float my barrels and pillar bed my wooden stocks. The only one to have changed/moved on me is my Model 700 BDL walnut stock. I moved with humidity changes, so I had to re-float the barrel channel, my laminated stocks have not moved.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Synthetic stocks tend to be cold and clammy in cold weather, in that same weather the wooden laminate stocks have a preception of warmth.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Regarding the injection molded plastic stocks, the forearms are not as strong as the synthetic and laminate stocks.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chopaka81, post: 342926, member: 9217"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Provided we exclude the injection molded (tupperware) stocks, the synthetic stocks are the most stable - errr in theory. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The modern wooden laminate stocks are vacuum impregnated and pressed together under very high pressure. It terms of stability, in theory they are less stable that synthetic stocks. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Does this theoretical loss in stability amount to a hill of beans? No.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I free float my barrels and pillar bed my wooden stocks. The only one to have changed/moved on me is my Model 700 BDL walnut stock. I moved with humidity changes, so I had to re-float the barrel channel, my laminated stocks have not moved.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Synthetic stocks tend to be cold and clammy in cold weather, in that same weather the wooden laminate stocks have a preception of warmth.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Regarding the injection molded plastic stocks, the forearms are not as strong as the synthetic and laminate stocks.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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