I had an older 10-22 that I eventually tricked out and installed a laminated stock, bull barrel and volquartsen trigger parts more the 15 years ago and sold it to a friend.
I just bought the new plastic stocked version, I installed a new volquartsen trigger and like it just as well if not better.
Note: I have a plastic Glock pistol and like it, and the Swiss Army is now buying plastic Glocks instead of "Swiss made" metal SIG pistols.
They didn't like the aluminum and plastic on the M16 when it first came out and said "Its made by Mattel" the plastic toy company.
The barrel band on my old one was made of pot metal and I broke it the first time I took it apart because I thought it was aluminum.
I'm saying this as someone who worked over 38 years in the mechanical field at a military overhaul base. Plastic will not rust, plastic gun parts can be made as durable as metal and they require less lubrication. If a metal pin falls out "OR" a plastic pin falls out the cure is still the same.
Bottom line, I like my new plastic 10-22 better than the old wood/metal one, so remember this, a wood stock can be effected by humidity and moisture and the fore end can warp and move with the seasons and a plastic stock will be unaffected.
Get over it, I cried when they put plastic bumpers on cars and we lost all the beautiful chrome.................................
That you had to keep polished and waxed to keep it from rusting. :banghead: