Carefully balanced design - Bravo Company MFG Stock Assembly-Mod 0-SOPMOD

To some degree, butt stocks are a personal preference and can be tailored to the individual's needs. I've used Magpul CTR's for quite some time but have always found them a bit on the bulky / clunky side for use with hard plates. While they do have a generous butt pad, I think in my experience, at least for my stocky 5ft 9in frame, they weren't quite optimal. I also had to shim them using delrin strips I cut to eliminate the rattle on mil-spec tubes.

Then there's the durability issue, the CTR's locking mechanism, while not weak, is not as robust as BCM's design, which can take some serious abuse, weather being dropped when fully equipped or mortaring the rifle in an emergency situation should it occur, the testing shows BCM's locking mechanism to be the most durable on the market.

What I really like about the BCM's stocks is the streamlined design, they simply don't snag on my plate carrier, weather running the rifle in a traditional vertical hold using the LVPO or running it at 45 degrees to use my off-set RDS, it fits nicely in the shoulder pocket without that occasional misalignment I would have with the Magpul CRT's as the bottom would catch periodically. BCM went through a lot of testing to refine the bottom shape to give you as much area and height as possible without compromising use with plate carriers. The stock works equally well with and without plate carriers.

As others have commented, the larger cheek weld surface area gives you a conformable interface that's pretty consistent (depending on the height of the optics). The VBOST notch is a nice bonus. The only thing I find a little quirky is that BCM forced the DQ ring longitudinal to the rifle instead of allowing it to rotate but using the D shaped QD ring instead of the rectangular QD rings, it still works just fine and perhaps that was their intent, to avoid rotation / twisting of the QD as they do have tendency to do that on the CTR's as they are not rotation limited.

This is a great butt stock, I would argue the most well designed on the market for use with AR's / M4's, it just works, it's simple, rugged and well-shaped, particularly for use with plate carriers.