Im more of a pamperer and yes maybe a fondler but I do have a couple shotguns from when I was young and dumb, that should have gotten a little more oil here and there and now have rust that I fight to remove and blueing that looks like it has cancer. I used to use the barrel and stock to smack trees and rustle brush rabbit hunting back in the day. I think now that I pay for my own guns and they seem to cost about 10 times more then they used to I treat them pretty good.