Anybody else feel a bit turned off by the modern iteration of the hunting rifle? Just my opinion, but they have no soul. No doubt, a tool for taking game or precision shooting can be had in relative terms for perhaps the cheapest price, with a higher accuracy potential, than ever in human history. One can go to a box store and walk out with a product by Savage, Ruger, Weatherby, Howa and many others for less than $600 with decent optics mounted and never want for an effective big game rifle. As an example, a sporting goods and hardware dealer has a Mossberg with a fluted bolt, bedded stock, adjustable trigger and Vortex 3x9 for $500. But something is missing. The stamped and molded parts, the cold, lifeless polymer/fiberglass stocks, just leaves something out of the whole experience, even vs the stained Beech and Birch stocks of the 60's-90's working class rifles... at least they were wood and steel. And on a side note, try to find a scope with a heavy reticle in the lower magnification range that doesn't either have tacticool bells and whistles, a circle plex or somesuch shotgun reticle, or a German/Austrian price tag, good luck!
Am I just a hopeless throwback, or is anybody else out there "old" too?
Am I just a hopeless throwback, or is anybody else out there "old" too?