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Heck, Bob - you know, that I preach water drinking wine as well.
if they re in separate glasses ...
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greydog,
That is indeed and interesting concept--but I have seen water get into some very interesting places on a rifle, especially after spending a week or more in a really wet and windy place like coastal Alaska or northern Quebec.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I love wood stocks and all my rifles sport them. But I did see the result of what could happen if it got submerged.
Not pretty at all.
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I have a couple of hardy rifles that I have a pair of stocks for. Plastic is for lousy weather and works. Wood feels better, looks better, doesn't jar your noggin as much under recoil and applies more value to the firearms if you like that sort of thing.
Has a great deal to do with your attitude to rifles, that being, are they things or beauty or tools to get it done? If they are both, sometimes you have to choose where you will use them based on the weather likely to be present.
JW
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
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One custom gunmaking friend once told me that he saw no reason to slather a bunch of "crap" inside the stock since, if the stock was well fitted, the barreled action sealed it off. A novel concept but one with which I had to disagree. In actual fact, his stocks were so well fitted that moisture was, indeed, mostly excluded but a good sealant would have made them even better. GD It is a nice concept, but in my case kind of hard to be free floated and sealed. The two are mutually exclusive. 
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JB,
Is there anything you would recommend in addition to using urethane spar finish to seal stocks? I have finished two stocks using urethane, one using gloss and the other with a mat finish. One was an old marlin A-1 rifle that I was given (the owner was throwing it away)that had white mold growing on it and some rust on the exterior from dampness when I was in West Washington State. I did spend some time on it, but the walnut stock cleaned up well and the finish did come out pretty good. I did metal work as well and the former owner did not believe it was the same rifle.
It seems to me that sealing a stock well will help with accuracy.
Rick
Life is not a spectator sport, get out and have fun.
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Wood is for flavoring smokeshacks.
Interestingly enough,warped/shifted canoe paddles,snowshoes or axe handles...won't shift POI from POA.
That'd be facts..............
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