Laminated Stocks

Good thing my Boyd's order shipped yesterday... I can see Boyd's dropping alot of their custom options as a result... I know they use Rutland blanks.
 
I've never been able to warm up to laminated stocks. I am amused by the guys that get indignant when you refer to laminates as "plywood" despite the fact that an outfit called "Rutland Plywood" is a big time manufacturer of blanks.

Now Kilimanjaro's laminates...I'd like to have a close look at one of those.
 
^ they are plywood...just ....really nice, well made, solid, strong bootiful pieces of plywood :)
Each there own...
what a boring drab place the world would be if we all liked the same things eh !
:)
 
Up until a few years ago I was not a fan of laminate stocks.
Since then I have acquired four different rifles of assorted chamberings with laminate wood and those four are some of the most accurate rifles I own or have ever owned, so I'm sold on them...
 
BigUglyMan said:
I've never been able to warm up to laminated stocks. I am amused by the guys that get indignant when you refer to laminates as "plywood" despite the fact that an outfit called "Rutland Plywood" is a big time manufacturer of blanks.

Now Kilimanjaro's laminates...I'd like to have a close look at one of those.
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Laminate stocks are a "plywood"... as in; made of multiple layers (plys) epoxied together... resulting in a stronger more consistent product... the reason folks get upset about the term "plywood" is because most relate the word to the cheap pressboard sandwiched between layers of fir sold at lumber stores... Rutlands laminates are solid birch plys compressed under high pressure with infusion epoxy... creates something with a heft and feel and strength that I really like on my guns...

BUM.... the flip side of the coin that you are referring to are the Fudds who sneer at (and sometimes belittle) other shooters who use laminate stocks on their rifles. For those, if it ain't oiled walnut then it ain't a gun...
 
BigUglyMan said:
I've never been able to warm up to laminated stocks. I am amused by the guys that get indignant when you refer to laminates as "plywood" despite the fact that an outfit called "Rutland Plywood" is a big time manufacturer of blanks.

Now Kilimanjaro's laminates...I'd like to have a close look at one of those.
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BUM now you are talking .... i dont know the price nowadays but few years ago it was a real bargain considering the nice job done ... but they re not starting with plywood at all ...
 
Kevan said:
Up until a few years ago I was not a fan of laminate stocks.
Since then I have acquired four different rifles of assorted chamberings with laminate wood and those four are some of the most accurate rifles I own or have ever owned, so I'm sold on them...
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i was not too also i have now two rugers with plywood on it and this is great and like it very well too ...
 
Yeah, I'm well aware of the difference between plywood at Home Depot and an engineered laminate stock. I just had to laugh at the haughty response I often get, though admittedly I'm usually trolling for a haughty response.

I'm a bit of a Fudd, but a loveable kind of Fudd. I'd probably give a laminate a whirl. I imagine they'd be nicer in the cold or wet than some synthetics.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Yeah, I'm well aware of the difference between plywood at Home Depot and an engineered laminate stock. I just had to laugh at the haughty response I often get, though admittedly I'm usually trolling for a haughty response.

I'm a bit of a Fudd, but a loveable kind of Fudd. I'd probably give a laminate a whirl. I imagine they'd be nicer in the cold or wet than some synthetics.
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Get right outta here! You're a Fudd? And you troll?

Whodathunkit...


P.S - I was quoting you, but not really talking to you... I knew, you knew...
 
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