Springfield Waypoint SG-100: A Nonslip Carbon Stock

Springfield Armory added three Model 2020 Waypoint rifles finished in Cerakote SG-100 on September 1, 2026, all at $1,995: the .308 Winchester BAW920308M with a 20-inch barrel, the 7mm PRC BAW9247PRCM with a 24-inch barrel, and the .300 Winchester Magnum BAW924300WMM, also 24 inches.

Nothing mechanical changes. These are standard Waypoints underneath: a stainless Model 2020 action machined from pre-hardened material with EDM-cut raceways and an integral recoil lug, a fluted 4140 tool steel bolt in nitride with tool-free disassembly and dual cocking cams, a fluted 416 stainless barrel with an SA Radial Brake on a threaded muzzle, an AG Composites carbon fiber stock, and Springfield's .75 MOA three-shot accuracy guarantee with match-grade ammunition.

What changes is the finish, in two places at once. The stock swaps its hand-painted camo for the SG-100 coating, and the metal swaps Mil-Spec Green Cerakote H-264, the color on the Evergreen guns, for black H-164. The result is the only solid-color configuration in a Waypoint lineup that is otherwise entirely hand-painted camo.

SG-100 is Cerakote's Super-Grip, a nonslip ceramic coating that lays a tactile, rubberized texture over the surface it is applied to. On the Waypoint it goes onto a bead-blasted carbon fiber stock, so the stock arrives with mechanical tooth in the substrate underneath and a soft-feeling grip layer on top.

That is a functional change rather than a cosmetic one, which separates this release from the usual new-colorway announcement. A carbon fiber hunting stock is a slick thing in the rain, and the standard fix is aftermarket: stippling, grip tape, or a paint job with texture additive mixed in. Springfield is now selling the textured version at the same price as the painted one.

The trade is that texture and camouflage are the same surface. A hand-painted Evergreen or Ridgeline pattern is a finish layer, and so is SG-100, so the rifle gets one or the other. For a rifle that lives in a truck and shoots off a bipod on a bench, black with grip is the better surface. For a rifle carried in the open on a spot-and-stalk hunt, giving up a broken-up pattern to gain grip is a genuine cost, not a marketing footnote.

The SG-100 stock cannot be combined with either of the Waypoint's two paid upgrades. All three SG-100 rifles are steel-barreled and fixed-comb, while the carbon fiber barrel and the three-axis adjustable cheek comb are cataloged only against the hand-painted camo stocks.

Springfield's ladder climbs from the base steel-barrel, fixed-comb rifle through the adjustable comb, then the carbon fiber barrel, then both together. SG-100 lives on the bottom rung only, at the entry price. A buyer who wants the grip texture and the lighter barrel is choosing between them, and a buyer who runs a tall scope mount and needs comb height is choosing between texture and cheek weld, which is the harder of the two calls.

The chambering list narrows it further. SG-100 covers one short action and two magnums, and it skips 6.5 Creedmoor, 6mm Creedmoor, 6.5 PRC, .300 PRC, and 7mm Rem Mag. The 6.5 Creedmoor omission is the sharpest of those, because it is the chambering the rest of this price class is built around. Our 6.5 Creedmoor guide covers where that cartridge earns its reputation, and the precision rifle buying guide ranks what else this budget reaches.

Three things, and the receiver pattern makes two of them easy. Springfield ships a Picatinny mount on a receiver drilled to the Remington 700 short-action pattern with 6-48 screws, so the entire Remington 700 base and ring supply fits without an adapter hunt. Rings are a straightforward purchase against a known standard rather than a proprietary one, and our scope ring guide covers height and material selection against objective diameter.

The magazine is AICS, and Springfield includes one 5-round magazine. Match the magazine to the action before ordering a spare: the .308 Winchester rifle is a short action and takes short-action AICS magazines, while the 7mm PRC and .300 Winchester Magnum are long actions and need long-action AICS magazines. Short-action bodies do not feed either magnum. Both are well-supplied patterns in polymer and metal, and a hunting rifle with exactly one detachable magazine is a rifle one dropped magazine away from being a single-shot, so budget for a second at purchase.

The muzzle is threaded under the SA Radial Brake, which puts a suppressor on the table for anyone who wants one. Our hunting suppressor guide covers the .30-caliber cans that suit a 7mm PRC or .300 Win Mag hunting rifle, and the component catalog lists current bases, rings, magazines, and bipods by fitment.

The buyer this fits is the one who was going to order a steel-barreled, fixed-comb Waypoint anyway and does not need camouflage. That buyer gets a better gripping surface and a black rifle for the same $1,995, which is a straightforward upgrade with no cost attached.

It also suits a rifle that gets handled wet: coastal and mountain hunts, a truck gun that rides in weather, and range work where a slick forend against a bag or a barricade is a real handling problem. The two magnum chamberings point the same direction, since a 7mm PRC or .300 Win Mag recoiling into a wet palm is exactly the case a nonslip stock was made for.

Skip it if you want a carbon fiber barrel, need comb height for a tall optic, or shoot 6.5 Creedmoor, because all three of those send you back to a camo SKU. Skip it too if concealment matters more than grip on your hunts. To price a complete rifle with optic, rings, and a bipod before committing, run the parts list through the rifle builder, and the deer hunting rifle guide places the Waypoint against the rest of the field at this price.