Target varmint style for me due to the grip and the high comb . Hard to find something that fits good and is comfortable in about anything else for me out the box. What about eveyone elese ?

I'm an old-school, Monte Carlo stock, type of guy.

I prefer a wood stock on all long guns. Really like a high gloss finish in good walnut but high gloss doesnt lend itself well to pushing bushes and briars. Have a couple with synthetic stock but almost always grab the wood stock.

It depends on what I want it for . There are a lot of different uses and a lot of different stocks to accommodate those needs. I would hate a target style heavy stock on a rifle I am making out to still hunt. My Mod 94 winchester is no good for shooting bench rest matches with. But it is a joy to carry in the woods and gets the job it was meant to do done. I just planted my M1A into an archangel adjustable stock that feels very comfortable to shoot but a bear to carry around for a day. So you are asking a question that can not be answered without some detail of what its intended use is. How long is a piece of string exactly ??

fiddleback walnut and boiled linseed oil

Whatever would look most like a Fudd piece of furniture to you, Wolfie.

Seriously, I like most all styles, the type fits the role, kind of like the rifles action.

The Kraut kind of summed it up, IMO.

Unless weight is a factor, I favor wood for feel and looks.

Not a black rifle guy.

The ones that fit me I have high cheekbones many stocks just don’t fit me well.

Checkered walnut for me. I have a couple of plastic guns but they are just tools and I am not attached to them.

Wood for me unless it’s for waterfowl and then it’s black composite

Wood as long as it fits to my shoulder on contact.

Disclaimer. Most of my time with a rifle stock is short lived. Range time is more for confirmation than because I have time of money to burn.
Plastic, wood, don’t matter a whole lot. I tend to go with synthetic due to the high humidity here. I have fitted a couple bolt rifles with family history up in chassis stocks lately. Kinda digging that scene, lately.

My pipe dream mauser actioned rifle would be housed in a full length Bavarian hog backed bit of walnut.

Wood.
I like to re finish old beat up wooden gunstocks.

Manners

Nicely figured walnut, classic lines, no Monte Carlo or other cheek-piece.

Don't like artificial stocks--though I own a few--or stocks with holes in them.

Jim

Just a plain old walnut stock for me, please.

Highly figured walnut is the worst idea ever for a hunting or a target rifle. But if one spends most of their time inside counting money with their soft hands, I guess that a pretty piece of furniture would be appealing to that kind of guy.