If by necessity this is just fine. We had one rifle in our family when the kids were little. When the boy grew, we had two rifles, and they played a big role in feeding us. More importantly, they helped us boys live like our genetics wanted us to. Our boy still has those two rifles. They have endured. They have endured.

If you are a cheap skate by nature, you need to change. You need to experience the feeling one gets when one handles a fine rifle, or tool. To me there are many better feeling than gazing at, or holding a fine rifle, but a fine rifle is is a fine rifle. My life has consisted of using fine tools on the job, and seeing and appreciating how they worked, endured, and felt. The abuse a fine tool takes on the job, shouldn't be, but is. In my eyes and hands, a fine rifle is the same as a fine tool. It feels better than a cheap tool. It looks better than a cheap rifle. It endures.

Few things are prettier, or feel better, than an old worn, well built, tool/rifle.