Originally Posted by Eremicus
I'd simply point out that the fact that the scope held zero speaks well for it. E

Which is why I mentioned that. Love those Talley rings -- I suspect such drops aren't so uneventful when a bloke is using front dovetail and rear windage rings.

Originally Posted by rost495
Hunt it. Who cares about looks on a hunting gun? You hunt or show off? At least I"ve never taken time to touch up scratches on any weapon I own...

Your point is taken. No one else sees my guns, so I don't show them off, but it can't hurt to touch up the now-and-then ding that's inevitable for a hunting rifle. I sold all my rifles with nice wood because rifles are tools. You don't use nicely figured and finished wood for a hammer handle unless you're going to enclose it in glass for some reason and not use it.

Steve

"I was a deerhunter long before I was a man." ~Gene Wensel's Come November (2000)
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