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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2384046" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>Ummm...go and take your rifle off of the horizontal rack, grab the barrel, one hand at the muzzle, the other close to the action. It will be like holding a steel bar. Now try your best to try to bend it into a U shape. If you can do that remind me not to meet you in a dark alley unless it's a friendly meeting. OK now that you have not succeeded in bending the barrel, take it to the range and check your zero. The chances are 99.9% that it will not have changed. If you can't bend the barrel then the chances of gravity doing it is pretty much nil. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, storing it vertically will let gravity draw the oil you used to lubricate your action and barrel to preserve and keep rust away leech into your beautiful walnut stock is an issue, but hold on...unless you literally pour the oil on your rifle the amount of oil that might make it's way to the wood and soften it to the point it matters, will probably be the granddaughter you left the rifle to's problem in about 50 years if not longer. If that worries you, get a rifle with a synthetic stock. I think that if that rifle was subjected to an acid bath, the metal would be gone but the stock would still be there. I much prefer the beauty of wood, but do acknowledge the advantages of plastic. Still much prefer wood stocks even with their idiosyncrasies. To each their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2384046, member: 118816"] Ummm...go and take your rifle off of the horizontal rack, grab the barrel, one hand at the muzzle, the other close to the action. It will be like holding a steel bar. Now try your best to try to bend it into a U shape. If you can do that remind me not to meet you in a dark alley unless it's a friendly meeting. OK now that you have not succeeded in bending the barrel, take it to the range and check your zero. The chances are 99.9% that it will not have changed. If you can't bend the barrel then the chances of gravity doing it is pretty much nil. On the other hand, storing it vertically will let gravity draw the oil you used to lubricate your action and barrel to preserve and keep rust away leech into your beautiful walnut stock is an issue, but hold on...unless you literally pour the oil on your rifle the amount of oil that might make it's way to the wood and soften it to the point it matters, will probably be the granddaughter you left the rifle to's problem in about 50 years if not longer. If that worries you, get a rifle with a synthetic stock. I think that if that rifle was subjected to an acid bath, the metal would be gone but the stock would still be there. I much prefer the beauty of wood, but do acknowledge the advantages of plastic. Still much prefer wood stocks even with their idiosyncrasies. To each their own. [/QUOTE]
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