Redpill me on mannlicher stocks

Redpill me on mannlicher stocks.
Why aren't they common anymore?

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Good luck trying to convince people to use wood in the age of polymer

How about a polymer mannlicher stock

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Non-meme answer:

There are several reasons:
First, and foremost, in the United States they were never popular and full stocks were associated with military rifles. In the era when tastes regarding civilian bolt gun aesthetics were being formed, a man who hunted with a mil-surp was seen as being poor or cheap, hence why so many milsurps were sporterized. Note, the full stock was almost always cut down.

Further, full stocks, for hunting rifles, where protecting against heat from prolonged firing is not a concern, originated as a way to allow the gun to be used as a walking stick (grasp near muzzle, strike butt against ground). Even modern optics wouldn't like that kind of battering and early optics were definitely not capable of enduring it. This is in part why mannlicher stocked rifles were and are almost always fitted with iron sights

People dont carry or shoot guns enough to need them.
people forget the whole point of handguards is to protect you from the gun more specifically the heat of that gun.
if your hunting it doesnt matter you wont ever be shooting enough to heat the gun to to omg i touched baremetal and burned myself. its not ww1 in the trenches. where you grab the gun by whatever part you can while you run.

The trend is reversing. Wood's the shit.

Hunt in sub 20 degrees and then tell me why exposed metal is a bad idea on a rifle.

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Bitch, who doesn't wear gloves in that weather?

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Probably the same people wearing cargo shorts in the snow

Normal well adjusted people

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Dude in pic is based and snow pilled.

Classic .308 chad

Imagine trying to free-float one, it’d be extremely hard while maintaining structural integrity.

>free-float
Nigger why. The extra stock actually helps make the system more rigid. How do you think people shoot 1MOA with K31s and GP11? Shit isn't free-floated.

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all my years on this site, this is the first time ive seen this gif without the second pair of glasses

Because barrel harmonics you absolute mong.

Because they're ugly and bedding or floating is easier without them.

>How do you think people shoot 1MOA with K31s and GP11? Shit isn't free-floated.
Good bedding because they were made well and take one to the jungle, let it warp and see what groups it shoots. A floated barrel and compound bedded action will do better in a wooden stock, better still in a man-made, but a chassis that's very well made and then skim bedded is probably the best of all. Manlicher stocks and other full length types are at the very bottom of the pile.

Its reversing because polymer is now the norm and hipsters gotta make their AR stand out somehow.

dude same.

hmmm...

Heh, Man-licker.

Can you post the .gif with the second pair of glasses? My hard drive with years worth of images died and I didn't back it up.

If you take a K31, grind away the stock at the muzzle to turn it having a free floated barrel that same K31 that shot 1MOA will now shoot 5MOA.

Guns that are designed with free floated barrels in mind have thicker barrels and are often shorter. This is why every bubba'd milsurp shoots like shit.

barrel harmonics...fuck dude. yes they matter, but they are not the end all nor is free float the end all of improving accuracy.

There are many roads to Rome. I'll choose a heavier, thicker barrel that is rigidly mounted over some weird ass flute that breaks when you drop it.

Both have their merits, but my grip can be shit due to nerve damage so i'll go with the gun that can handle a bump.