Reply With QuotePerhaps we should do a poll, fish scales or proper checkering. I know what my money would be on!
Fishscales
Old fashioned Diamonds
Grind it off and stipple the SOB
Other/Neither/Pie
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I hadn't given it any thought until today.
It looks pretty good on a walnut stock. On beech it's not so good but can't say I'm that bothered.
I assume it sells well in the US, so Air Arms will continue to make it.
Keen but clueless..
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Perhaps we should do a poll, fish scales or proper checkering. I know what my money would be on!
Plinkerer and Tinkerer
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Poll added.It doesn't show who voted for what, so your dirty secrets are safe.
Muddled
Fish scale checkering? It looks like scabs.
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Probably the best description yet...Originally Posted by I. J.
Fish scale checkering? It looks like scabs.
I'd like to buy British and I like Air Arms. But no way I'm having a rifle and stock with fish scale scabs.....
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Fish scales cured in 5 mins with a belt sander
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I have an early Mk3 that has checkering instead of the fish scale & doesn't have the odd looking curve in the fore end, to my eye at least, much classier
John.
ok, I admit it, I've got a problem.
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ive a mk2 action ive put in a mk 3 stock I like the new stock,,,,i like it and am the only fan of the aa510 tc
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Cant beat a classic skip line diamond checkering.
Stippling is nice but its a B**** to clean.
Fish scale on a rifle just looks weird to me.
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Just thought I would post a pic of the two types of stocks side by side and was wondering if a more classic checking might look better on both
https://goo.gl/images/jnPqzS
Something like this.
http://www.straightshooters.com/imag...Forearm-01.jpg
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Yes Barry.. I love that pattern... I like a fleur des lis also...Just thought I would post a pic of the two types of stocks side by side and was wondering if a more classic checking might look better on both
https://goo.gl/images/jnPqzS
Something like this.
http://www.straightshooters.com/imag...Forearm-01.jpg
Donald
It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got a Spring
Scales belong on Fish, Snakes and the Old Bailey Phil !Poll added.
“An airgun or two”………
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Too decorative and 'girlie' looking. Give me the plain stuff every day of the week.
Owned a 0.22 prosport with the old diamond style. Traded it for a brand new 0.177 with fish scales. Made sure I came home with the diamond stock and the fish scale stayed in the shop.
Last edited by Lumberjack; 27-10-2017 at 06:40 PM.
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Agreed. Looks lovely and is grippy. Stippling looks and feels horrible; diamond chequering is OK if in the right areas. Air Arms have got it right, in my opinion. The S400 has chequering which wraps around the fore-end and is thus very grippy, and it looks good with the double line around the border of the chequering on the fore-end and grip. No other manufacturer seems to do that.
The ugliest chequering I have is on my Theoben Taunus, where the chequering is on a raised, squared-off lump on the stock.
Nicest stock for me by far is on an old Theoben Countryman. No stippling/chequering/fishscales or nasty squared-off edges. Just a lovely smooth and rounded feel to the whole stock.
I say dear boy, would you mind awfully doing as you're told?
I have a second hand TX200 HC with the diamond pattern, but I bid on a fish-scale stock on 3b4y. The trouble is it did really well and got on for the price of buying a complete new rifle, so I had to let it go.
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