Does wooden furniture have any advantage or is it just for aesthetic?
Does wooden furniture have any advantage or is it just for aesthetic?
Josiah Wright
Adam Bailey
Just for looking goddamn good, man-made materials are better in every other way. Although, having said that, I would take a wooden stock, well made and fitted, from a piece of timber with good grain and properties that has been well seasoned over some of the worst budget injection molded plastic stocks as far as durability and fitness for purpose goes.
Jayden Ward
Looks great but adds an additional 2 lb.
Ayden Gomez
>aesthetic
Nolan Thomas
what you call weight I call "dynamic recoil mitigation"
Zachary Sullivan
Synthetic stocks are better in any objective measure. It's just looks, and granted, wood does look nice.
>Lighter
>Don't warp
>Not sensitive to oils/ solvents
>Stronger
>Cheaper
>Can be cast - meaning much cheaper complex shapes
>Can be made to have moving parts and adjustment easily
Andrew Reyes
It almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Luke Campbell
It's not as likely to break if you use it to cave someones skull in
Connor Lewis
Not true desu, plastic is less rigid and more likely to survive a strong impact.
Joshua Torres
Ive heard something where a wooden foregrip doesnt transfer heat from the barrel as well but idk if thats bullshit or not
John Powell
I could believe that, but I doubt it would make a huge difference.
Jacob Butler
why didn't they give it any lightening holes?
Zachary Rodriguez
Aesthetics are reason enough.
Ayden Garcia
Hypothetically, timber could be easier to obtain than plastics in war time for some countries, but that’s about it.
Jaxson Long
Yeah but that makes it worse for caving in a skull, because the flex of the material absorbs impact.
Adrian Martinez
Jason Torres
All black polymer shit should be replaced with bakelite
Aiden Russell
Wood, being comprised of water, has some hydraulic recoil mitigation. There are noticable (but not great) differences in felt recoil between wood and polymer stocks on the same gun. My 10/22 went from no recoil on my face to unit level of recoil after putting it in a Magpul stock. Their stocks on AKs have give users bruises on their faces. My boss has one and came in with what looked like a black eye one day.
Jason Lopez
>advantage
look good, feel good
Kevin White
As we all know, wood grows. If you're shooting your gun and the wood breaks, just stick it in your backyard and make sure to water it well.
Christopher Bailey
The stocks were wood because it is less expensive than metal when guns were invented.
On the front bit, gun barrels get fucking hot. It's inexpensive insulation to protect your dumb ass from getting burned.
On the grip, same as the stock.
Nicholas Brown
Made my SP1 nicer to shoot. made it comfy by being slightly heavier and reduced the sproing
Anthony Jenkins
SPROING can also be reduced with some different buffers.
Daniel Myers
A E S T H E T I C S
Mason Wood
Why are you using your face to shoot a rifle?
Grayson Watson
There is *literally* nothing wrong with wood grips on a handgun.
The weight is negligible unless you're making a racegun, but who cares about looks for raceguns?
Heavy metal 3 gunners.
Joshua Long
Wood looks nice, it's easier to repair damage, and it's easy to make one-offs or custom stocks/grips without having to spend massive amounts of money on new dies for molding polymer or stamping metal.
Polymer or other modern materials is cheaper for mass production and doesn't have any problems with warping or cracking due to weather, humidity, etc.
fpbp, especially:
>> I would take a wooden stock, well made and fitted, from a piece of timber with good grain and properties that has been well seasoned over some of the worst budget injection molded plastic stocks as far as durability and fitness for purpose goes.
cheap plastic sucks ass. Otherwise I have no problem with it.
Nathan Morales
Why aren't you? Have you ever heard of cheek weld?
Asher Mitchell
A wood stock on a shotgun is always better.
Adrian Davis
>10/22
>ak
>recoil
Jaxson King
>I don’t know the difference between static and dynamic
The Post
Andrew Sanchez
one practical advantage wood has is wood is better for making something in a limited situation. if you choose to make the furniture yourself and just for yourself, simply carving and staining wood is quicker, easier, and requires less tools then injection molding. 3d printing will probably change that but still relies on more expensive and complex tools
Lincoln Gray
i hate those finger grooves.
why dont they just make a wood A2 grip and be done with it?