I want to buy a synthetic stock for a 98 30-06 imp,i want to put together .Can someone who knows, tell me which stock is best? and why ?out of these 3, Bell and carlson ,Butler creek and corelite thanks ,i want one with camo preferably

I have a '98 in a corelite....it works fine.

If you want a synthetic stock McMillan’s are the best...period.

I was never happy with the corelite. Never had a Butler. Sold my Bell and Carlson. Light weight I use Hi-tek. I have used MPI and they are fine but their blank takes a lot of work. Buying a ready made I would choose a Brown Precision. http://www.brownprecision.com/

velodog

Im with ramrod I like the hi-tec. You will need to glassbed it your self and paint and install the recoil pad. As far as the ones you mentioned I'd use the B&C medalist. Best bang for your buck I would think.

Hey vapodog are you and velodog from the same litter.

Shawn

same litter different sire i think

Take a look at rimrock stocks They are prety darn nice Mine is on a model 70 featherweight. They can be found by dooing a search at borden rifles ...tj3006

I have no advise, I'm just not familiar with that type of walnut

Well, my first choice would be a MacMillan, and I do have two of those. I do have one Mauser on a Butler creek,(BC) but it did entail some serious alteration to get it to work. First, I was using a commercial version of the Mauser. (J.C. Higgins M-50) I believe the BC stock was set up for one of the military actions. I had to hog out the recoil lug area and then rebed the whole thing with Accraglass. Their recoil pad made the stock way too long for me, so I removed it and made a steel buttplate for the gun. (That part was real fun.) I'll probably trim off the stock and put a nice recoil pad on it some time down the road. When all that was done, I got some of that expanding foam stuff used for insulation and filled the inside of the butt stock butt to eliminate the drum like booming you get with hollow synthetic stocks. Fill about half way and go like hell to get the buttplate back on before it all oozes out. Trust me on that one. Make sure you have the outside masked off. Mask off the outside of the foreend as well and squirt some of that expnading foam in the barrel channel as well. If you want it to be free floating, use some of that black plumbers tape or electriciand tape and use a little grease or Vaseline for a release agent. Again, go like hell to get the gun back into the stock and tighten the screws as normal. Make sure there's release agent on the barrel as well. That stuff can be a bitch to get off. I don't know if a BC stock comes in any other color that black. All I can say is I like the way way mine came out.
Most of my synthetic stocks are Ramlines. Nothing special, but they work well once you quiet that booming down.
H&S Precision makes a nice stock. I have two of their Fiberthane stocks they were making bacl in the early 80s when they had their plant in Prescott Arizona. I don't think they make a stock for Mausers though.
I paint my own cammy designs on my synthetic stocks, but I don't know if paint will stick well on a BC stock. Rustoleum has some camouflage paints and I use those. They seem to hold up reasonbly well.
Hope this was of some help.
Paul B.

Take a look at Brown Precision -they make a very tough stable stock. Jim Borden also makes very fine stocks . Those are just two favorites.You get what you pay for-look at it as a long term investment.There is a big difference in quality between the bottom and top end stocks.Look carefully at the way each are constructed.
If you havn't worked with glass stocks before get it completely installed and go shooting. Brown Precision had a video that was very good- check on this.