Getting there
Well, another part of the puzzle came today. Looks very nice and I can tell it is really going to pop once I get it camoed up to match Bonnie. Hoping to put together a fine looking S-410 that will take a lot more game with style. 😀
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Speaking of scratching fancy stocks, here’s something I learned about the culture difference between us in the US and some of the folks in Germany when it comes to hunting rifles.
In the U.S. most of the folks that buy expensive rifles hang them up and never use them. When I say expensive, I’m talking about guns like this k95 imperial from blaser. $30k guns.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=156157903
Something as gorgeous as that, and as expensive, is a collectors item here, someone with the money buys it and wouldn’t even think about shooting it.
However, apparently over in Germany, the people who can afford these rifles buy them for what they are, hunting rifles. I talked to a guy who had a grandparent in Germany with a rifle he said was worth over 50,000 dollars, I think it was a r93 blaser, but anyway, he said that rifle had seen more woods and swamp than any of his much cheaper hunting rifles ever had. And this is the case with a lot of people over in that area, Germany and I guess other parts in Europe. A gun like that is a very nice looking utility rifle, not just a piece of decoration.
Obviously there are exceptions, some there wouldn’t use it, some here would, but the majority I believe is like that. Just a culture difference. Pretty neat though. 🙂
Actually Riff, it makes more sense then me not using my beautiful walnut stocked AA S410 because I don’t want to scratch it. It’s limited to padded rests only.
The only way I would mount that to my rifle, is if it WAS camoed or bedlinered. Or else Id be afraid to take it in the feild.
My guns get used, not toyed with. Scratches are common, and a stock like that might as well be delivered to me wrapped in gravel. Its going to be dinged up anyway.
I know, I make no sense. 🙄
…can you at least leave the rosewood end cap exposed? I agree, that’s a “purdy” stock.
😯 Your going to camo that? 😯
But it’s so purdy!!! 😛
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I can’t imagine spending a ton of money on a gun and then not using it. My most expensive guns get used far more than the others. Hell, they are expensive because they are built so well and that’s what makes them work so well and a joy to shoot! My kids can worry about the scratches when I’m dead.