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    Grayboe’s answer to a better rifle stock

    Feb 28, 2018 7 minutes
    by North American correspondent Thomas Tabor

    I will be the first to admit I have a special fondness for gun stocks which have been expertly crafted from a piece of highly figured walnut. The natural beauty inherent in a fine Claro, Bastogne or Turkish walnut simply sets my heart pounding much like a teenage boy’s ticker does as he is about to escort his favourite girlfriend to their school dance.

    But as beautiful and impressive as walnut can be, there are some major issues with wood stocks that can have a negative impact on your shooting performance. They do not resist the effects of nature as well as a composite or synthetic stock. When subjected to moisture, wood can warp and distort, resulting in changing the impact point of the bullets. And also wood is more easily damaged in the field as a result of scratches, dents and in some cases even breakage. For all of these reasons many shooters are now opting to replace their factory wood gun stocks or, even in some cases, their finely crafted custom wood stocks with an aftermarket composite or synthetic-style stock.

    There are a lot of aftermarket composite rifle stocks on the market. Some are good and

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