Thanks for your help on the Synthetic stocks posts.
I have a Remington 700 ADL 30-06 and am going on my Bear hunt on Vancouver Island for Black Bears, and will also use it for elk etc.
I cant decide what to do with the stock.
I keep going back and forth between keeping the Factory Wood Stock, and putting on a Sythetic stock that I would buy from Cabelas with my Points.
I dont mind getting the wood Beat up, as I think it adds character, and I like the look of it, but for some reason I think I need a Sythetic stock on it..
Please help me decide.
Keep the factory wood or buy a sythetic.
Thanks for your help,
W.

If the wood looks nice and you like it, I'd just hull the channel, bed it, and leave it alone.

If it was worn, I'd bed, hull the channel out, strip it, prime it either dark grey or olive, put a tiger stripe pattern on it, seal, and add a nice recoil pad to give it a new look. I did a worn stock like this and it turned out nice.

If you don't want to fool with it, buy a HS precision and be done.

Reloader

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Originally posted by Reloader:
If the wood looks nice and you like it, I'd just hull the channel, bed it, and leave it alone.

If it was worn, I'd bed, hull the channel out, strip it, prime it either dark grey or olive, put a tiger stripe pattern on it, seal, and add a nice recoil pad to give it a new look. I did a worn stock like this and it turned out nice.

If you don't want to fool with it, buy a HS precision and be done.

Reloader

+1.....unless you happen to have a freak remmy stock that is a really nice piece of wood!

Bed it, seal all the rest, and have a good hunt. The eskimos and others have used wood stocks for a long time. I personally think a rifle deserves a wood stock.

I like wood. I like the grain. I like the dings along the way, even when we try to be careful. I like the way it feels on my cheek and in my hands. I like the way it looks. I like to know that my grandfather didn't hold a stainless piece of plastic in his hands as he trudged through a high mountain pass in a blizzard while looking for a mule deer. I like the way wood photographs and the way wood takes the vibration when I shoot.

I also like blued rifles. I like the way the bluing can wear and show that the gun knows what it is doing (or at least I like to think it does), but I guess that is for another thread.

What do you want the picture of you and your bear to look like with your rifle?

Alan

Considering all the rain you can find yourself in the further up the Pacific Coast you go, depending when you are going to be on Vancouver Island, if you had a Hogue Rubber Stock on your rifle, you will really come to appreciate the grip of the Hogue when you are in bad weather..

The Hogue will also virtually take anything against it, bouncing off the rifle, just like something bounces off a car tire..

The Hogue also has an aluminum bedded block in it for stability, and is also available with a full length bedded block...

It is also now available in a couple of colors instead of just black, like OD Green and OD Brown.. as well as several camo patterns now..if that suits your tastes...

why beat up the wood when you don't have to..

BC can let you see some hard hunting in some nasty weather... I hunt a lot with Ruger Short actions in 243, 22.250, 223 and 260 Remington..
even tho I have laminate stocks on them, I also have a couple of Hogue Rubber Stocks for when I am out in the rain etc.. because of good grip you get on the stock in the rain.. and it is 100% stable, regardless...

for Rainy weather, Hogue is the only synthetic stock I'd have on my rifle..

Thanks Guys!!
If I do stick with wood, do you think I would have any problems with the wood in wet or humid conditions ie warping/POI, or is that not a concern for hunting purposes.
Thanks in advance,
W.

Woodsie, If you have any concerns other than aesthetics, go with synthetic or laminated.

Alan

Do like I did when I went to Alaska on my Caribou hunt with my wooden stock rifle, put some boot wax on the barrel and stock. It repels water and can be wiped off after the hunt.

It's a matter of preference but since you asked...
I view my hunting rifles as more akin to hammers than sculpture. They are almost all stainless steel and they all have composite stocks that remain unaffected by days of rain. If I want art I'll go to a museum.