Sold the rifle to a bud a few years ago...hes out there killing elk with it
I never babied my rifles and I have wood stocked blued rifles that are 30 years old and look better than most a tenth their age...however I have learned to like the luxury of not paying attention to little dings, bumps, and rainstorms on a SS/Syn rifle
OTOH, being somewhat a traditionalist and hunting Africa in warm dry climates, it seemed to me a sin to use anything other than classic rifles. So I didn't.
Gophers and coyotes don't beg for classic rifles, so they get SS/Syn.