A question for those with the really expensive toys

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Precious doesn't win matches or bring home meat, accuracy does. Precious isn't cheap. If you scratch precious, precious is devalued. If you scratch accurate, accurate still wins matches and brings home meat. I spend my money on accurate rifles. I do like pretty rifles but I can't justify a precious rifle so I just don't buy them. I don't like synthetic stocks but to be brutally honest they are a true improvement over wood if you consider the price performance ratio. I've seen some lovely PB rifles that people bought as investments. They kept them in a sleeve, in a climate controlled closet and never shot them. Might as well buy gold, you don't need the climate controlled closet.

All that said, If precious floats your boat, happy sailing for sure.
 
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"oldspook"Precious doesn't win matches or bring home meat, accuracy does. Precious isn't cheap. If you scratch precious, precious is devalued. If you scratch accurate, accurate still wins matches and brings home meat. I spend my money on accurate rifles. I do like pretty rifles but I can't justify a precious rifle so I just don't buy them. I don't like synthetic stocks but to be brutally honest they are a true improvement over wood if you consider the price performance ratio. I've seen some lovely PB rifles that people bought as investments. They kept them in a sleeve, in a climate controlled closet and never shot them. Might as well buy gold, you don't need the climate controlled closet.

All that said, If precious floats your boat, happy sailing for sure.

Well we went from Star wars to Lord of the rings

Thanks to all, this has been a good informative thread believe it or not. One of the biggest balks I run into when talking with folks about my airguns (and its a question that always seems to come up) is cost.
Most of the time I can calm them down a little when we start comparing actual shooting cost and how in the long run things tend to level out, but still they tend to turn a little blue in the face themselves even handling my relatively speaking cheaper air rifles. Still for me at this time at least I believe I will stick within my current range. Its where I am comfortable at both in budget and mindset ( Although I tend to turn a few shades of green when someone fumbles one of my guns)
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Horace Kephart speaks about guns in his camping book and says not to worship your riffle. Whatever that means. When I get a new dirt bike. First thing I do is push it over so it gets a scratch so I don't have to worry about it anymore. But some of that wood out there is very nice and the workmanship is amazing, but I know I'm gona mess it up so I always go syn. I don't abuse my guns, I do however rest them on rocks and carry them threw brush. 
 
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Rifles a there to be used day or night rain or shine however do not go hunting for rats in a farm yard hanging over a slurry pit with a £2000 rifle and a £2300 scope and slip.

Draining the slurry pit was not cheap it's on my cousins farm so the business paid for it. My poor baby had to be washed down and sent back for a full service even though I'd given he a dammed good clean. The scope was fine solid as a rock, as to the rat my lad got it with a springer whilst laughing his socks off. Looking back it's funny but at the time heart breaking.
 
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"markmccready"Rifles a there to be used day or night rain or shine however do not go hunting for rats in a farm yard hanging over a slurry pit with a £2000 rifle and a £2300 scope and slip.

Draining the slurry pit was not cheap it's on my cousins farm so the business paid for it. My poor baby had to be washed down and sent back for a full service even though I'd given he a dammed good clean. The scope was fine solid as a rock, as to the rat my lad got it with a springer whilst laughing his socks off. Looking back it's funny but at the time heart breaking.
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Living on a farm I can't even imagine dropping one of my guns in the slurry pit and trying to return it to working order. I feel bad for you lol

I have had some very nice high end guns (RAW, WAR, Daystate, BSA, Taipan). Now I loved all of them however some were so nice I was definitely afraid to shoot them on the farm for scratches and dents and everything that they ended up sitting in the safe. All have been sold now except for my Taipans. I love those guns and they don't have nice wood stocks but more a utilitarian stock and I'm not afraid to get some marks in them. Now don't get me wrong I'm also not hard on my guns but they get used in dirty conditions and im hopping over fences and all kinds of stuff so they get some use. But my Daystates and RAW lol I sold them before they had any real scratches or problems cause I knew they would eventually in my hands lol
 
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