Wood or Synthetic Pick your poison

[ZVP]

There's enough of both types and enough time has passed that you likely have a preference, right?
Mine is Wood, I feel that wood canbe fashoned and worked to make a "snooth" gun one that dosen't have sharp edges and won
t snag on materials no matter what you're wearing. The checkering dosen't bite the hand under recoil and cycling.
Most important of all you can shorten a wood stock to fit just try that with plastic... you better have a glue gun!
I haven't ever run my shotgun over or dropped it 2 stories orpoured acid on it. so I feel prettysafe with my preferance. Yea sometimes it does weigh a bit more though...
How bout you, what's your favorite?
BPDave

 

[BigBore44]

For my larger bore rifles (.30-.458)? Wood.
For my coyote rifles (.22 mag, .243, M1A)? Synthetic
For a field shotgun? Wood.
For a duck gun? Synthetic all the way.

Both synthetic and wood furniture have advantages and disadvantages. Wood furniture is always more aesthetically pleasing to me. But I would never take a nice, wooden stocked shotgun out duck hunting. YMMV.

 

[JohnBiltz]

Synthetic. I know its common to think gun companies replaced wood to save money but that is not what happened. People started going to synthetic with after market purchases. The gun companies figured to get to get in on it and it just took off. People wanted synthetic stable non warping stocks.

 

[osteodoc08]

Depends on what I want.

A beater deer rifle- synthetic
A "classic" deer rifle- wood
My preference for bench- heavy Laminate
Lightweight Hunter- Kevlar/Fiberglass.

I love the look of black laminate and Stainless. Looking for a nice 7mm-08 currently. Ruger makes one, but compact only.

 

[bannockburn]

Bolt action rifle, lever action rifle, over/under and side by side shotguns-wood.
Pump and semi-auto shotguns-wood or synthetic.
AK-47, SKS, M1A-wood.
AR-10, AR-15-synthetic.

 

[Dr. Sandman]

I like wood on my guns. IMHO, AR style guns look stupid with wood on them. If there is a wood option, I'll usually go for it.

 

[chicharrones]

I like both almost equally depending on the gun and the purpose of use.

I usually never fear nicking or scratching a synthetic stocked gun, but a gun with nice wood gives me the worries on occasion.

 

[forward observer]

If God had meant for firearms to have synthetic stocks he would have made synthetic trees.

 

[MErl]

I really like laminate stocks

 

[hardluk1]

I like wood be it a nice piece of solid or a laminate Synthetic ,NO Composite , yes.

 

[ngnrd]

I prefer... choice. They each have their place.

 

[plmitch]

I like and use both.

 

[Nwflycaster]

I own and use both, but I prefer the looks and feel of wood.

 

[anothernewb]

I will admit to having a thing for walnut and blue steel.

but I have several stainless/synthetic units too. All depends on the desired use and environmental conditions as others have stated.

either will endure elements well, but the synthetic and stainless combos just give you that much larger of a protective buffer.

 

[bearman49709]

My centerfire rifles all have some kind of syn stocks and only my AR is blued. Only one shotgun is syn and camo the rest are wood and blued. All revolvers are stainless steel.

 

[HellTrain]

I like both and feel both have there place, but I probably like wood a little more

 

[Blackbeard]

Both have their appeal. If I had to carry it all day or compete in a sport where speed is a factor, synthetic. For fun, beauty, collectability and admiration, wood.

 

[Sock Puppet]

Wood or Synthetic? Yes, please.

 

[dagger dog]

A Remington model 12, A 22 rimfire pump rifle would look hideous with a plastic stock and forearm, same with a Winchester 92or 94, 1874 Sharps, and a Colt 1873 in stainless and Micarta stocks.

Plastic, stainless, carbon fiber, is OK for AR's AK's, Sigs, Glocks , etc,

 

[Mike1234567]

I no longer care about "pretty". Most of my firearms are SS/synth to fare time and weather. They're tools.

 

[herrwalther]

Synthetic mostly. Some rifles I will never have a synthetic stock on like classy lever action Marlins and such.

 

[skoro]

Wood or Synthetic

Wood.

I'm old.

 

[yzguy87]

Depends on what the rifle is.
If its a Marlin 336, AK47, Mosin Nagant-wood
AR15/10, AK74, pricision rifle (think Savage 10 FCP-K or a nice 700)-synthetic

 

[Reloadron]

Wood or Synthetic?

Uh, yes.

Each has their merits and thus I ended up with each. Works for me anyway.

Ron

 

[Mike J]

All my long guns have wood stocks but I bought them a while back. If I were buying a deer rifle now I'd probably go for synthetic just because I don't see any point in beating up a nice piece of wood.