I've owned two Goens rifles and shot some others;friends have had a number of them built.Calibers have been 270's, 30/06,and one 375H&H and of course they all shot great despite the "handicaps" of wood stocks and fully bedded barrels
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Dale Goens was an old school stockmaker in the American Classic tradition, fully on a par with the likes of Al Biesen,Len Brownell,and Monte Kennedy.I think these guys defined and molded the term "custom rifle" for a previous generation.
His rifles were of course beautiful,but not built just for show,and he intended them to be used and hunted.I talked to him one time about when synthetic stocks were coming into use,and he related that a sheep hunting client was horseback up in Canada,when his Goens rifle was snatched from the scabbard at night by willow branches,and dropped into a creek...in the dark, this was not discovered until they got back to camp;next morning, when they retraced steps,they found it lying submerged in the stream.....the hunter dried it off,checked POI (which had not changed),and went on to kill a fine ram.
I soaked mine to the bone on a couple of trips....they never changed POI on me.
From what I knew of Dale,and the numerous conversations I had with him, I suspect he would flip over in his grave if he knew his rifles were being collected...an avid hunter himself, he expected them to be hunted and used.
A Goens rifle is a treasure....I suggest the OP buy it ASAP.he won't regret it