What bugs me most about it is not the way it looks, but the way it feels. They seem to do the checkering strangely, and you can just feel the plastic (at least on the Onyx Pro model). I'm not going to put somebody down for buying it, though. It looks good from a distance, and given the choice between that and a camo finish on a gun, I'm not sure I'd take the camo. Everybody likes real wood better, but that might not be an option on field guns someday - Remington is doing it now, too...