This best grade custom has been dragged through the mud, rain and never treated like a safe queen, and has accounted for wild boar, black bear, and water buffalo. I don't baby any of guns, they get used for what they were built.
Never doubted that you were the sort of person who would both care for, and use his guns, the way they were designed for. All credit to you.
Sad to say, but over the years I've seen too many fine guns that have never left a display case. To me that's always seemed like a shameful waste of the time, skill and craftmanship of the builder. Likewise all to often I've seen other guns that have suffered badly from corrosion due to extended exposure to winter hunts. Even with careful owners, wet high country winters, with only a fly camp for shelter, aren't easy on firearm finishes.
