Steel and wood?

[DMK]

I'm rebuilding my STG FAL and it is going to get wood furniture when done. It does have a classic quality to it.

In the mean time, here are a couple of my favorite wood and steel guns.


Romanian SAR1 AKM


1942 Springfield Armory M1 Garand

 

[horsemen61]

Can't beat wood and steel in the looks department

 

[bluzman]

Here's some steel and wood for you. The middle Springfield is #1. R.I.A. Museum.

The roller is my home made 30-06

The 514 is my 99+% baby.

These are all right side up on my computer screen. But sometimes they go haywire when I post, for reasons I don't unserstand. Apologies beforehand if they do.

Gotta love those 514's. Here's mine.

 

[tark]

Bluzman, you got that right! A 514 was the first rifle I ever hunted with. Here's another pic and a pic of My three 99+% Remington rimfires. Apologies again before hand. These pics are right side up on my screen

 

[Reloadron]

Gotta love those 514's. Here's mine.

I need to find a nice 513 and 514 to go with the 510, 511 and 512 I have. The 510 was my very first rifle, a gift in 1958 when I was 8 years old.



Ron

 

[Paul7]

Recently acquired Sako pre-Garcia in .30-'06. For the $700 it cost me, no modern rifle can touch it.

 

[spm]

I have said it before, but ...

Guns are supposed to be blue steel and wood, and holsters are leather, and I'm too old to change now.

My blue steel and wood:
S&W Model 19
Colt Detective Special (My EDC)
Colt 1911
Ruger Single Six
My only long guns are old single-barrel shotguns and an old bolt action .22. They are all steel and wood, but, given their age, not unusual.

steve

p.s. I do have one stainless S&W Model 686, that I bought in a moment of weakness.

 

[stubbicatt]

Recently acquired this rifle for lever action silhouette. It is a work in progress. Have a short staff MVA rear sight on it, removed the 3 leaf express sight, but kept the original front sight. I am leaning towards replacing it with a Winchester globe and post front sight, but am not entirely sure just yet. The front sight is pretty short.

The close coupled double set trigger is a neat setup. Not as nice as the setup on my schuetzen rifle, but still really nice. Full octagon barrel.

As you can see the finish is pretty lousy. I'm debating whether to clean or refinish the receiver and barrel. Shoots good.

 

[tahoe2]

Here's a few

 

[Reloadron]

I do not own any plastic or polymer type guns. My handguns are pretty much all older revolvers of S&W and Colt manufacture:

The image excludes some stainless guns. Pretty much blued steel and wood.

I also have several of the older Colt 1911 Series 70 Government models with a few Series 80 guns in the mix but I do gravitate to the older guns:

The only non Colt is the bottom gun, a Kimber Ultra which serves well as a carry gun.

My brother is a plastic type and I get to shoot his stuff all the time. I have no problem with the newer guns, they simply are not my taste in a gun. I figure at my age my taste in guns is not about to change. My rifles run similar but I do have several AR type rifles.

Ron

 

[Candyman87]

I'm a blued steel and wood guy too. With the exception of my PPQ and M&P Shield, everything else is steel for the handguns and only my AR15 and short barreled 870 are polymer stocked. Everything else is wood and steel.

 

[highpower]

 

[FL-NC]

I collect US mil firearms, must be property marked, must fire a metal cartridge. I still need a Johnson 1941, and then a property marked S&W victory., then maybe start on shotguns. My fav is the Garand. That being said, the M4A1 SOPMOD and a Glock is and always will be my choice for the real world.

 

[Frostbite]

The real world is vastly overrated.

 

[Saggins]

Tagging along with my father hunting deer he always had his Ruger No. 1 in 30-06 or his .444 Marlin. Every wood gun has always had to live up to those standards to me.

 

[Reloadron]

Tagging along with my father hunting deer he always had his Ruger No. 1 in 30-06 or his .444 Marlin. Every wood gun has always had to live up to those standards to me.

Have a Marlin 444 which was a great hunting rifle in W. VA. Someday I need to take a long hard look at hunting rifles I have since I haven't hunted in years. Shoot the 444 Marlin and you know you just shot something.

Ron

 

[Hoppes Love Potion]

I also love the blued steel and walnut. Nothing like it. But I have also come to appreciate stainless steel since I live in the Deep South. I do like the look of nickel but so far don't have a strong desire to own one.

 

[highpower]

 

[meanmrmustard]

The real world is vastly overrated.

Apparently so is weight!

 

[Frostbite]

Apparently so is weight!

I concur.

That said, I have a thing for the Browning finish. Their bluing is, on some rifles I have seen, most exemplary.

All that does not prevent me from hunting with a stainless and synthetic camo muzzleloader, which I find a lot easier to keep looking almost new even though it went through tough weather and handling.

I must admit my Browning wood and blued steel rifle, which is a decade older, still looks quite good, but it needs more care and shows more wear.

I just like both, I guess, in a different way. One is definitely prettier, the other tougher.

After all, the importance of weight is only proportional to the influence of gravity, is it not?

 

[chiggerdigger]

Gotta love those 514's. Here's mine.

I bought a 514 at a yard sale bout a year ago for 15.00 it cleaned up nice !

 

[meanmrmustard]

I concur.

That said, I have a thing for the Browning finish. Their bluing is, on some rifles I have seen, most exemplary.

All that does not prevent me from hunting with a stainless and synthetic camo muzzleloader, which I find a lot easier to keep looking almost new even though it went through tough weather and handling.

I must admit my Browning wood and blued steel rifle, which is a decade older, still looks quite good, but it needs more care and shows more wear.

I just like both, I guess, in a different way. One is definitely prettier, the other tougher.

After all, the importance of weight is only proportional to the the influence of gravity, is it not?

Very true.

While gravitationally challenged, steel and wood add a panache to the sport/hobby/passion.

 

[ifit]

Nothing like the smell of Steel and wood

some from the collection

 

[CApighunter]

Couple of mine. Remington 700 in 30-06 and Glenfield 30a in 30-30

 

[Jason_W]

Wood and steel just feels right to me. There's something very organic about it, which makes sense as humans have been merging steel and wood to make weapons for eons.

I understand and acknowledge the technological superiority of synthetic and aluminum, but for me, such "advantages" are pointless. I've hunted many years in hard terrain and I've never broken a stock and all reasonably well made rifles, whether they be synthetic aluminum or wood/steel are way more accurate than I am given field positions. And weight? Weight soaks up recoil which is really nice when sighting in and practicing.