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While I carry a fine stocked rifle now and then on a 'farm' for pests or easy deer blasting I don't take them for trips where snow, rain and rough handling might happen.
Now we have plastic stocked rifles with SS for metal.
When I started out all we had was walnut stocks on M70's or 99's etc. Some of them got marked up some.
All guns should be locked up when not in use!
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Yep, I know. The Kimber was a Montana with glass stock that snapped in half at the rear guard screw.
Guess bad luck can happen no matter what the stock is made of.
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I'll hedge my bets with a McMillan.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Highly unlikely a McMillan would have snapped like the Kimber, that is for sure.
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Except when i carry a vintage rifle for fun, i never carry a wood stock in the woods anymore. Since all my vintage rifles are beaters, i dont mind if they get scratched or gouged.
Despite my user name, no I am not from Texas.........
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I'm sorry, I hunt with my woodstocked rifles.
Butch
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They were made to hunt with. I used my Biesen 257 Roberts on several hunts. Every mark on the gun tells a story. In fact, a couple years ago I let my 85 year old Gramps take a shot a prairie dog with it. As I was spotting he leaned on the top of the fence post and put a scratch in the bottom of the stock...I smile everytime I see the scratch.
ddj
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. - Robert Ruark
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I should have added the reason I don't hunt with wood stocked rifles is because none of my hunting rifles are wood stocked.
Last edited by TexasTBag; 11/09/11.
Despite my user name, no I am not from Texas.........
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A few scratches on this one after the hunt, but I don't mind. I like the feel and karma of wood. ![[Linked Image]](http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae196/bakerjak/Kimber_Sheep_small.jpg)
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DeskJockey, I love that pic!!!
I won't drink the swirled Kool-Aid
.....well, maybe, if it looks like wood
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I love this thread and the "Fence Post" thread, lots of pictures of some great rifles.
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DeskJockey, I love that pic!!! +1
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I'm sorry, I hunt with my woodstocked rifles.
Butch Yeah! And you've got a beautiful custom in 6.5x47 too  Alan
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Alan,
I've only shot a couple hogs with it. I also have a 6.5X47 in a Brown Precision stock.
Butch
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Phil - you have a mighty big FOOT ...PRINT there! Lol. Sasquatch? I can see why the pucker factor...and 458s.... 
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A few scratches on this one after the hunt, but I don't mind. I like the feel and karma of wood. Excellent photo -- fantastic composition AND technical quality! John
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Thanks on the photo. A little luck with the quality since I'm no photographer.
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