My 2 cents is when you decide to restore a gun and after you waited a year or more to get it back -- is to shoot the snot out of it. A lot of times the gun comes back and it's "too pretty" to take to the field and it gets put away un-used in the safe and is treated as eye candy...
I shoot all my restored guns and I have the normal wear from handling and marks in the stock from me using them to pass down to the next.
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