lots of folks here using wood blued rifles , do they hold up as well on average ? No , but ugly rifles kill stuff in Alaska just as well as anywhere else.
No lie! I ran across a guy on POW about ten years ago hunting with an older Remington 700ADL in .243 that was more brown than blued. Perched atop the receiver/rear of the barrel was a beautiful Tasco scope in Weaver rings, no bases of any sort, attached to the rifle with numerous wraps of duct and electrical tape. He'd killed more than one deer with that POS...
Chris
