You're willing to go through that extra trouble and that's perfectly fine. People with stainless or cerakoted guns can just go for a lot longer without doing that and not suffer consequences. If you're willing to put in the extra effort to maintain a blued/wood rifle and don't mind the tradeoffs then all the more power to you. No one here is saying it won't work at all, simply that they find it a pain in the butt.
I'm not too invested in this topic so this isn't really about wood stocks and blued guns when I say this. Why is the term "fanboy" so prevalent on this forum that it's lost all meaning? It seems every thread I look in where a debate is happening, someone is just blanket terming everyone who disagrees with them as a fanboy.
Because there are lots of them here and they get riled up easily. Just try it, drop a post ripping anything tacticool or make any judgement about shooting 1000 yards, and you’ll see. It’s good sport!
Walrus blubber: the new magic gun protection product. But seriously, where do I get a pair of those pants?I must be missing something. I've hunted with blued and wood guns for more than 40 years, on clear days and raining days, and never had one rust. In fact, I've never had one rust anywhere that wasn't due to a lack of care afterwards. My grandfather and father always preached, clean your gun first when you get home, before you do anything else. I've done that since I was a child. It's that way I was brought up.
I inherited my grandfather's and father's blued and wood guns that were hunted with hard and none of them came to me with rust. Several had exceptional bluing wear that only added to their character, but none had rust.
It wasn't too long ago that there were next to no stainless steel and plastic guns to buy. It's a wonder that millions of blue and wood guns survived.
Google Inuit Hunters or Inuit Rifles. These folks that live in harsher environments that you and I will ever imagine, hunting walrus and seals in wet, frozen, salt environments, are mostly toting wood and blued guns. Many of them are long-out-of-production guns. And I doubt many of them have been sent off to some boutique for cerakoting.
Til they saw that chassis shoot a milk jug at a mile, then they'd crack a beer and start asking questions
Ruger has a few in the hawkeye african line. They release limited edition ones in non african calibers, 280 ackley, 6.5x55 and with iron sights. Closest gun I can think of to a classic rifle unless you want to buy a dakota 76.
