mossberg 500

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From your experiences, which of synthetic stocks or hardwood stocks is better? The recoil pads on the synthetics are also different from the hardwood stocks. Anybody know which one is more comfortable?
 
For my money I always go for wood. It just has a nice, natural feel to it and the firearm doesn't feel like something from Mattel.
 
to me it is a balance thing over looks. sometimes a shotgun will be really nose heavy with a syn stock.
 
Ha-ha Steelco....That's why I retired to the interior where we tan rather than rust and the weather forcasts have something other than rain turning to showers (never been able to tell the difference...they're both wet). After ten years here the webbing has finally gone from between my toes.
 
The synthetic mossbergs have a matte blue finish. Is this better than the 870 Express matte finish? I owned one and didn't like it as it chewed up my gun rags.

I also like the blued/wood mossbergs because the bolt is chromed.

It also seems that the combo packages only come in the wood/ or you can pay for the camo combos but they're more expensive.
 
I'd buy whatever one is cheaper and then upgrade it with a Hogue overmoulded stock/fore-end combo. Mossberg's synthetic furniture is cheap looking and can have a lot of casting imperfections in it that look really bad. Hogue stocks are well made and have a great rubberized grip on both the fore-end and the pistol grip portion of the stock. The wood on newer ones I believe is birch not walnut. Sure it's wood but it's nothing to look at. Older ones have nice walnut though so it depends on when it was made.

Walnut > Hogue > Birch > factory synthetic. :)
 
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