For many hunters, pursuing big game is about those connections to other hunters to our rifles to the game and where it lives. Walnut stocks fashioned by a skilled gunmaker also provide a human connection, each line or diamond representing craftsmanship. No synthetic stock offers the same beauty or feel of connectedness. Every curve and sweep of grain can never be duplicated. It adds beauty to a rifle and provides a reminder of something once living now preserved. Walnut provides a link to the land on which we hunt, it grows from the soil we trod upon when pursuing game. The rifle’s stock was obviously too long for a skinny kid, but the recoil was more pleasant than that of my 20-gauge side-by-side, and the feel of the 700’s walnut has long since been etched in my mind. My father brought it home out of the blue, and we spent countless days out in that desert hunting chukars in the rimrocks, and shooting soda cans and the occasional jackrabbit in the flat ground along the tracks with the. 222 Remington with blueing that showed just a hint of honest use, original rifle sights and a glossy walnut stock with a small amount of figuring. 22 Nosler rifle features a classic walnut stock.Just off the highway is where I received early lessons in riflery, along those iron rails some 40 years ago.
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