what is the big advantage of chassis over stock?

[sniper_wing]

I saw many people using chassis and also many using stocks.

I know that when using chassis system, you do not need to do glass bedding or such things. Glass bedding could get softer after a period of time, and glass bedding could also be softened by gun cleaning solvent. Chassis system seems easier to maintain. But using stocks such as HS Precision, you do not need to do glass bedding, either, due to the inner aluminum bedding (so-called mini-chassis?)

Maybe this is a stupid question. But I am curious. I wonder the chassis vs stock problem is just personal choices, or, one really has big functional advantage over the other?

I am trying to build (or to choose) a not too heavy 308 sniper rifle, and I am debating about HS style stock vs light chassis (such as X-Ray) with myself.

Thanks a lot if you guys could shed a light on it.

 

[strike33]

This has been covered in great length many times but here is a quick run down:
No bedding
Integrated DBM
Adjustability
Modularity
Folding stocks

Many stocks with integrated bedding blocks still benefit from skim bedding. The best stocks with integral bedding are the Manners mini chassis and KMWs Sentinel with IMB

 

[6brshooter]

What strike said, although manners makes a folder in a conventional stock, with one caveat... I have two chassis's bedded, both showed ok accuracy beforehand but had some diagonal shape to groups. One is an aics 700 and the other is a PDC savage. The aics just got bedded under the tang, the pdc got the whole action bedded except tang ( a no no on savages). They both improved and group shaped became ragged holes with same load. Usually hs&bc stocks have a rather ave to poor fit from bedding block to action, i always skim bed the aluminum bedding blocks that are round. V block bedding blocks are usually more forgiving of action and stock machining variations.

 

[sniper_wing]

Thank you guys.
I will search and read old threads.

 

[agbm]

+1 I Love Mine!!!!!! Welcome to KRG

 

[strike33]

Absolutely. I had a Manners TF2 and it was the best of all options in one package. And now with the elite carbon they are light weight

 

[Ro_Bird]

A lot of it is going to come down to personal taste and requirements. I personal like the feel of the traditional stock style but when it comes to pure utility the chassis are easier to work with. Detachable mags, folding stock, night vision mounts, end user adjustability are all available in both but generally you’ll see more chassis with these options. I wouldn’t say one has a huge advantage over the other though.

 

[redneckbmxer24]

Manners makes traditional stocks with chassis and now you can also get folding models with the mini chassis. If a more traditional stock is what you're after but want the bedding block this is the way to go.

 

[KentuckyWindage]

The biggest advantage of a chassis is the "Operator As Fuck" grin on your face when you pull the rifle out of it's case at the range. Wow!!!

 

[shooterfpga]

The biggest advantage of a chassis is the "Operator As Fuck" grin on your face when you pull the rifle out of it's case at the range. Wow!!!

Haha love the comment. Youre right though chassis looks and works awesome.

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[verdugo60]

I am starting to use Chassis and really prefer them for modularity and the ability to fit to me or other shooters on my rifle. Also really nice to not worry about bedding, with my KRG W3 I don't think it would get any better being bedded. Might be different with others, but being able to bolt your barreled action in and go is great, along with smooth mag feeding, etc. The x-ray will be best of both worlds, light, cheap and all the features except folding and quick length of pull that the W3 has.

 

[Spuhr]

I prefer them to "conventional" stocks due to ergonomics espesially in prone.
In my opinion the buttplate and the checkpiece should minimum be at the same height as the top of the bolt.
And very few stocks offers that.
If the buttplate is lower, it Always sits poor in prone position and get's the shooter to use a higher than needed position.

I don't agree that bedding is not needed, as it actually is many times.
So expect that beeding is needed!

 

[Ro_Bird]

The biggest advantage of a chassis is the "Operator As Fuck" grin on your face when you pull the rifle out of it's case at the range. Wow!!!

This is mostly true LOL! However there is a few of us who actual need all those bells and whistles and chassis tend to be the easier path to take. But yes you must remember the first rule of “operating” is:

1. Always look cool.

I love my KRG and to be honest as a "operator" I wouldn’t ever go back to a traditional stock even though I kind of prefer the feel. When you can literally remove every (and I mean every) nut, bolt, component, etc. from the chassis and clean, paint and then re-assemble and re-mount the barreled receiver and re-mount the optic and not have a zero shift more than a 1/10 of a Mil, it’s just one of those things that makes me sleep well at night.

In the end I guess that’s what it’s going to come down to. If you like it and it does all the things you want it to do, then run it.

 

[KentuckyWindage]

In all seriousness, the ability to adjust every user/rifle interface is what sold me on a chassis (Mcree), it's comfy.