Like said above, wood and chromolly have worked for hundreds of years.
Cotton clothes and smooth soled boots "worked" for hunting for some time too.
Yeah but you are even further off subject now than when the thread started. The guy didn't ask what rifle he should buy or clothes he should wear, he ask what he needed to do to a the rifle he already owned. Very few have offered any useful suggestions.
He can have a very successfully hunt with his blued Ruger rifle and not be slowed down one bit if that's what he chooses to do. He doesn't need to sell it and buy another rifle or throw in in a creek like suggested above. It's one hunt. He doesn't need a stainless rifle with a new age plastic stock to do that. Simply protect the finish of the rifle and go hunting. It's not that hard, people have been doing just that for a long time.
