The line between shooting/hunting and collecting is different for each person. One needs to be comfortable with what they are carrying afield because it will suffer some wear and tear from use.
Some characteristics are not very well suited for hunting, like a checkered or skeletal butt when hunting from a blind where guns will be standing in a blind with the butt in the dirt sucking up moisture.
The risk of a fall or dropping a gun is ever present for all us so one needs to keep that in mind. Nobody is happy about damaging a Parker, even a Trojan, but a low grade shooter will hurt less if something happens.
I hunt with most of mine.
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