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<blockquote data-quote="TexasSportsman" data-source="post: 2012012" data-attributes="member: 115081"><p>Each scratch and dent in a wood stock tells a story. Its history embedded on the rifle. My Dad gifted me a Remington .30-06 pump rifle that he bought for his Dad in the 1950s. My Dad shared a story for each of the scratches and dents. They say if the walls could talk the stories they could tell. The stories of each dent and scratch on that rifle are stories of successful and unsuccessful hunts, getting in and out of the truck, leaning the rifle against a tree and watching it fall to the ground, etc.</p><p></p><p>You see...back then a rifle was no more a tool than a hammer, saw or a drill. They were made to use and saw hard use. That rifle is as beat up as a tool can be from 40 years of putting meat in the freezer and busting a few varmints from time to time. That rifle never saw a scope either. Granddad hunted out to 200 yards with iron sights. To see photos of my Dad, uncles and my grandparents they may have been poor in materialism but they ate well enough with the New Mexico mule deer they harvested along with veggies in the 1 acre garden they tended. </p><p></p><p>So don't rule out wood stock. Our forefathers hunted for their families and defended their homes with firearms that had wood stocks and they did it well enough to bring civilization into the 21 century. If the hunter starved it wasn't because the rifle had wood stocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasSportsman, post: 2012012, member: 115081"] Each scratch and dent in a wood stock tells a story. Its history embedded on the rifle. My Dad gifted me a Remington .30-06 pump rifle that he bought for his Dad in the 1950s. My Dad shared a story for each of the scratches and dents. They say if the walls could talk the stories they could tell. The stories of each dent and scratch on that rifle are stories of successful and unsuccessful hunts, getting in and out of the truck, leaning the rifle against a tree and watching it fall to the ground, etc. You see...back then a rifle was no more a tool than a hammer, saw or a drill. They were made to use and saw hard use. That rifle is as beat up as a tool can be from 40 years of putting meat in the freezer and busting a few varmints from time to time. That rifle never saw a scope either. Granddad hunted out to 200 yards with iron sights. To see photos of my Dad, uncles and my grandparents they may have been poor in materialism but they ate well enough with the New Mexico mule deer they harvested along with veggies in the 1 acre garden they tended. So don't rule out wood stock. Our forefathers hunted for their families and defended their homes with firearms that had wood stocks and they did it well enough to bring civilization into the 21 century. If the hunter starved it wasn't because the rifle had wood stocks. [/QUOTE]
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