Welcome to the Forum!I've always loved the looks of a beautiful wood grained stock and I own several. After spending a year in Nam carrying an M16 I said I'd never carry a black rifle again. However, after while I bought an AR 5.56 and love it. But I still like a pretty wood stock.
I've always loved the looks of a beautiful wood grained stock and I own several. After spending a year in Nam carrying an M16 I said I'd never carry a black rifle again. However, after while I bought an AR 5.56 and love it. But I still like a pretty wood stock.
And the prices to match the beauty !Went to lunch with deemus in Highland Park the other day.
Stopped in at the Beretta Gallery…they’re absolutely still making beautiful rifles and shotguns
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Nothing wrong with newer technology. But the basis of most everything is based off older technological advancements.Plastic guns, electric cars, what you gonna do? My guns are pretty much Walnut and blue steel, my pickup has a Hemi, They'll both stay that way. I'm old so I don't worry about the electric car scam the left has going.
Nothing wrong with newer technology. But the basis of most everything is based off older technological advancements.
Electric cars were very popular and out-numbered gasoline cars in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Cheaper production costs of gasoline and the electric starter were the beginning of the decline of electric cars in the early 1900's.
Polymer guns are just part of the technological advancement of guns. That pretty much started back in the late 1950's. Lighter weight, and cheaper to manufacture.
What needs to be appreciated is where it came from, to understand where it is at today.
the funny thing is that your elcheapo walmart savage in .270 whatever will probably shoot better than any 5000 dollar top of the line hunting rifle of yesteryear, but as the old sayin' goes technology marches on, though TBH I prefer the AR15 as my hunting gun of choice.The following 3 long guns are the most attractive models I've ever seen. My granddad owned 2 of them: Savage Model 99 in .300 Savage with straight uncheckered stock and a Husqvarna Model 3000 Crown Grade with Monte Carlo stock in .308.
There isn't any lever-action rifle sleeker and more elegant than the American Savage Model 99 series. It's production is sorely missed. The Swedish Husqvarna 3000 Crown Grade bolt-action rifle is pure majesty to behold. Those European gun makers were master artists just like Da Vinci and Van Gogh. Mauser 98 action, long rotary control-feed extractor claw, jeweled bolt, fancy hand-rubbed walnut Monto Carlo stock, hand checkering, white spacers, metal butt plate, hinged floor plate, smooth, polished round-ball-knob, tapered and curved bolt handle. My grandfather's Husky had a darker wood finish and was in safe-queen condition when he passed away. The venerable Browning Superposed over/under shotgun is sheer elegance from the old-world craftsmen of Belgium.
I would almost trade my soul for any of these guns in minty shape. They are hard to find, sold out a lot or prohibitively expensive. This awesome threesome are the ultimate envy of American hunters and gun collectors.
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The pretty Browning Safari .30-06 I posted above was no safe queen. It has a long & productive harvest history from extensive hunting trips to Alaska & Montana in the 1960s & 1970s.Pretty guns are for safes, and matches. That's not what the 2nd Amendment was about, though, so I think that's what's driving a significant segment of the gun-owning population towards more durable, field-ready, operationally-minded weaponry. Imagine those three guns in the OP being issued to some Marine today!
But it is still going to be a fun time in OOC!We knew exactly what you meant.
The pretty Browning Safari .30-06 I posted above was no safe queen. It has a long & productive harvest history from extensive hunting trips to Alaska & Montana in the 1960s & 1970s.
plenty of dents & nicks tell those stories from the field.
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