I used to cherish pretty wood on a rifle.As I matured and advanced as a hunter/shooter,I came to notice that it had to be an annual thing to sight in my deer gun,partly because the stock would warp and mess with the zero.In 1981,I had a custom 280 done and put it in an HS Precision fiberglass stock.I hunted with that rifle for 28 years and never took the caps off the scope.It never needed re-zeroed.Wood is beautiful,but I no longer own a hunting rifle stocked in wood.My last build is a 308 that I did up with an old Ram-line fiberglass stock that I totally reshaped to fit me exactly.The wonderful thing about the older fiberglass stocks is that fiberglass is easy to work with.I wanted a cheek piece and a palm swell.Some carefully placed Dura-Glass and some sanding and presto,great feeling custom stock.I am working on an old B&C stock as my winter project this winter.I can't do that with wood.And if I'm carrying a beautiful rifle stocked in good wood,I am putting too much focus on protecting the gun and not enough on hunting.Synthetic for me all the way.The money it takes for nice wood is added to the optic budget.