Fishinfool: You seem to have a much nicer/later generation than my Choate folding stock. Yours had polymer covering most of the metal, that's very nice. But all of mine saw quite a bit of "dirt time", and the folding lock seemed to have a magnet that drew tiny grime that bound up everything.

My experience was: All the folding stocks were great looking, and if all the did was ride in a car or on a tractor, with an occasional offhand shot, they performed pretty well. But in my protracted war against groundhogs and other vermin, Were in dry dirt and leaf litter more often than not for hours a week every Spring, Summer, & Fall. and a few hours a month in the Winter. I didn't wallow in mud, but that would add an even greater grime factor that the folders wouldn't operate well in!

Ivan