SKS stock - fiberglass or wood?

[gunsrfun1]

Like some opinions here. I have a Chicom Factory 26 SKS with spike bayonet that I am going to re-stock. Quite honestly, I don't want to spend a bundle on this, don't want to spend a bunch of time refitting everything, and don't want to spend lots of time trying to find one. I don't need to buy one tomorrow, but I don't want to spend weeks and months looking around.
I see that there are wood and fiberglass surplus stocks out there, like at David's Collectibles. What are the pros and cons of each type, and what would you recommend? The only "con" I have heard about the fiberglass is that they are not always drop-in and may need some fitting. But they look cool I think. (Obviously we are not going the tacticool route.)Thanks

 

[cal30_sniper]

I had one of the surplus fiberglass stocks on my Chicom. I much preferred it to the factory wood stocks. The fiberglass stocks are tighter, which means that they may take some fitting here and there, but it also generally makes them more accurate. The action tends to wallow around in the wood stocks, especially if they've been subjected to years of oil and grease like most of them have. The fiberglass stock tightened up the groups on my Paratrooper quite a bit.

 

[hueyville]

Buy some bedding material and rebed the action in the original stock. Buy a couple or three cans of flat camo spray paint, paint the stock to suit and call it done. On the SKS rifles I have rebedded and painted the stocks, they are selling for another 125 bucks because they look cool and don't rattle as bad.

 

[Loc n Load]

SKS

I have a regular size SKS that I slapped into a Choate synthetic, it is a very rugged stock and has performed well. I also have a SKS para in a choate side folder which I like very well. The Choate conventional stock goes for around $75 or so.

 

[119er]

The fiberglass stock I have is heavier than the wood if weight matters to you. I bought a Chinese for the express purpose of stripping it down and having it Zinc Phosphated (gray parkerized) and doing the fiberglass stock in OD greenish gray. Maybe a cheesegrater handguard for good measure. And a big maybe on the Marcus mag adapter. I did the detachable mag thing before but honestly, I like the stripper clips and fixed mag best.

Good luck with your project!

 

[hueyville]

I agree with the fixed magazine. I bought a deal on a dozen original 20 round fixed mags. All my personal SKS rifles get swapped to the 20 round box, bedded, stock hand fit to metal and refinished. A pocket full of stripper clips and its a good time.

 

[ifit]

got this from daves a while back, but have since sold my sks pictured, but kept the stock and fitted on my sks-m. i think its just something different than the wooden stock which i like, and not into the tactical sks stuff..to each their own