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Who truly loves the olden, classical, bygone, earliest models of firearms, over recent models. I honestly love the earliest by a long shot, pun intended.
Era in time would be post WW1 to 1990.
 
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Buckmastr said:
You mean plastic doesn't blow your skirt up?
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Maybe my kilt, hence 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 French. LOL!!! I also enjoy that plastic stuff, however, that older workmanship/craftsmanship wood and steel is an endless love.
 
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Yes I enjoy shooting nice old school blued steel and walnut too. Lots of deals on that type of stuff in the past ten years because most people chase lightweight rifles.
 
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A Tikka I picked up recently. Light, plenty of plastic, with a nice stick of wood. Not sure where I'm headed anymore.
 
The reason many modern day rifles work is because they don’t get worked. Synthetic stocks, good synthetic stocks, have existed since the 70’s. They aren’t new.
 
Iron sites, solid walnut, proper blueing, real gunsmiths, and guys that could actually shoot. Now we have assembly line machinists and wussy shooters that put muzzle breaks on a 223 because the recoil is too powerful and the rifle is to blame when they can't hit the target.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Iron sites, solid walnut, proper blueing, real gunsmiths, and guys that could actually shoot. Now we have assembly line machinists and wussy shooters that put muzzle breaks on a 223 because the recoil is too powerful and the rifle is to blame when they can't hit the target.
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Lots of prepubescent children shoot better today then guy’s that thought they could actually shoot 20 or 30 years ago.
 
I will stick my head up. I like nice old rifles. I call them classic, but I realize that the word gets over used. I only have a few, with my NAACO Model 90D 30-06 with a Williams Twilight 4x topping my list. I collect mostly military surplus, but have a couple of plastic ones that get used. Latest is a standard Ruger PC9. I like looking at the pictures of members' walnut and blue firearms. There are still some new ones that look pretty good.

My go to whitetail rifle has been a mid-50's 94 in 32WS, so you can pretty well guess my tastes aren't too exotic. I have seen some Cooeys with gorgeous wood.
 
I like older guns too. I have a couple rifles with plastic stocks, one that I won and the first centerfire rifle I bought because the plastic stock version was $250 cheaper than the walnut stock version. I don't hunt, and basically haven't touched the 30-06 since I did load development for it. Even though it's my first real rifle, I'm thinking I should maybe sell it to make more room in the safe. Had a nice classy day at the range on Friday with some of my oldschool tacticool target rifles. A Dane, a Norwegian, and a couple Swedes. Was hitting steel out to 600m with the CG80, and the range markings on the rear sight were spot on after zeroing at 100.
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Kristian
 
1880-1910 ish are my pick for my collection. Less now than 20 yrs ago. Single shots are my go too. My eyes now need scopes so no open sight martinis high wall etc. New models that can use optics.
 
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