I’ve tried EVERY stock made since the original VLTOR and Magpul stocks and I am firm in my belief that the original MOE is the best stock ever, very closely followed by the M4 waffle stock.
I hate tight stocks, locking mechanisms, QD sockets that are invariably in the wrong place, short toes, sticky buttpads, facial hair ripping seams, and the worst offender of all... ‘Enhanced sloping cheekweld’.
On the subject of tubes?
There’s ‘mil-spec’, and then there’s mil-spec. If it’s not an impact extruded chunk of 7075 with rolled threads, dry lube, and all the right dimensions, it’s still a commercial tube.