Lilred's Rant of the Week-Field & Stream

[Lilred]

Had to take my Mama to a back specialist yesterday and I was in the waitin room all total 3 1/2 hours
So I was sittin there readin the magazines..they all sucked..ya know..them girlie magazines w/ nuthin but pictures of high dollar outfits and all that happy crap. Dug thru the basket..lo and hehold by the grace of god there was a brand new issue of Field & Stream. I was grinnin like a mule eatin briars...still I started readin.

They had an article in there..where the writer bought a Fox Sterlinwerth double..a beautiful gun. What does he do with it???
He restores it! I dont mean restore as in mechanical restorin..which to me is perfectly acceptable. Nawww..uh-uh..he gits him some fancy new stock..even had a different shape! Said the old one "wouldnt fit the shooter's of today." I bet you my ugly stick would fit a "shooter of today"....

Then he gits it reblued...and he puts new chokes in it..the before and after pics was a sin among all sins. Now..I can understand fixin somethin that's broke. But the gun looked to be in fine shape and well taken care of. It looked used..which was the gun's intended purpose. Ripped all the character right off that gun..to "fit the shooter of today."

Well let me tell him..and I think I might..that "the shooter of today" was originally the shooter of yesterday and that's the way it should remain. Not only that...but iffin he wanted a new Fox..then he shoulda bought a new one.

Well..needless to say..I put that magazine down and dug fer another half an hour to find a Outdoor Life..but iffin ya'll are near a magazine rack at the store..er git that magazine...take a peek at that article.
I'll shar my ugly stick..I aint greedy