I have to agree with the last few comments. I have changed my tune on this over the years as I used to be a timber stocked man. The only plastic stocks I ever encountered growing up were cheap badly fitting numbers usually on mauser 96s. Then I went to New Zealand and borrowed an MG Arms .270 that was the lightest handiest rifle I have ever used. I still love my old timber stocked rifles but will just as soon pick up a synthetic stocked rifle. They have a different soul to a walnut stock but a soul none the less.