Ep. 406 | Stocks Versus Chassis — What’s Your Pick?

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This round-table discussion takes place around a table loaded with a wide variety of rifle stocks and chassis. Models, features, total wight, and material composition abound. Mark Boardman, Ryan Muckenhirn and precision-rifle-shooter Mike Tassoul talk through what they like, where each is optimal, and what works best for them.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.7	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic. Jim, to my right, Mr. Mike Tussle across for me, also
0:23.6	across from me, Mr. Ryan Muckinherd. Now, gentlemen, you know this. I put a lot of stock in what
0:31.2	you guys have to think about things. Hunting, shooting, general life advice. And related to shooting, we got a bunch of stocks on the table,
0:40.6	but we also have a bunch of chassis on the table. And that's the topic of our discussion today.
0:47.9	Stocks versus chassis. We're going to talk, you know, competition, long range. We're going to talk
0:53.0	hunting. And a lot about where they intersect. If you're watching on YouTube, I made an intersection. I thought that was one of marks. I thought that was one of marks like, stop, stop, we're going to start over. Oh, yeah. I thought that's what that was. I think we're rolling. Good. Do you think we're not rolling? I'll tell you. He's feeling
1:11.3	confident. We're rolling. Do we need to start over? No. No. No. Don't go down that path.
1:16.5	Stop.
1:19.6	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ryan, you did the math, or maybe you and Mike were doing the math. I'm no math,
1:26.8	math magician,
1:27.5	but what did you guys figure? How much dollar value of stocks, chassis do we have on the table here?
1:33.8	We don't talk about these things in case your spouses listen to them.
1:38.8	True. If a person were to hypothetically go out and purchase the smattering of items in front of us.
1:47.5	You're looking at just under $13,000 for the stocks.
1:50.7	That's impressive.
1:51.5	That is before you put a barreled action or trigger or bottom metal or weight.
1:57.7	Or ammo.
1:59.2	Yeah. Hypothetically.
2:00.1	Yeah. Hypothetically.
2:00.5	So there's quite a selection here.
2:02.5	When it comes to the quotation mark, regular rifle stocks that we have on the table,
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