A stock has so many uses!! x

[lcharles]

Never knew this:

A hunting stock can save your neck from whiplash, can be used as a bandage for an injured horse, hound or human and can be used as a sling or even to lead a hound.

How does it support your neck from whiplash? Haha, I can't stop my horse let alone stop so quick that i could get whiplash!!

 

[Bosworth]

it means if you hit the ground. However the whiplash thing is not true, In order to do that it would have to immobilise your neck the full way down into your shoulders. and up to your skull, no stock is strong enough to do that. Rodney Powell did make a stock to protect the neck but it was made from impact foam and I suspect even that was not really going to protect you much if you fell at an angle that pushed your head back/ forward fast. heard of the others tho and I can see it would be useful. I always wear a self tie one, rather than a pretied stock.

 

[lcharles]

I found it funny! x I think it probably helps to keep the muscles in your neck warm so you don't get a cricked neck if anything! Haha! x I wonder how many other uses it could have!! x

 

[Batgirl]

I believe it harks back to the day when most stocks were rather large, thick and cravatty (think pride and prejudice) and the sheer volume of material offered some minimal neck support. Most worn these days are obviously not protective.

 

[Kat]

Like your scout/guide tie it could also be used as a tourniquet.

I do recall there being a section in the scout/guide handbook on uses for your neckercheif, and certainly sling, bandage and tourniquet were listed. As was using it to splint a fracture (with another item like a sturdy branch).

I think there were some outdoors survival type one too like straining water before boiling to to drink - but you couldn't do that with a stock.

Oh and you can do semaphore with a scout/guide tie, but again you couldn't with a modern shaped to tie stock.