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[Billnpatti]

Unless your personna is a Native American or a trapper, tacks would not be appropriate for your rifles. My personal taste is for the undecorated (with tacks...carving is nice, though) rifle. In my personal opinion, and this is just my opinion, all of those gaudy decorations on a rifle are in the same category as tattoos on a beautiful woman. They just don't appeal at all to my old taste.

 

[robtattoo]

Ah, well that just seals the deal for me! You may guess from my name that tattoos & tattooing are a large part of my life. My beautiful Wife has a full back-piece tattoo.

Tacks is it! :grin:

 

[noworries]

A couple of pics of an original Hawken from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center...very lightly tacked.

 

[nkbj]

Well shucks fellers. Now I don't feel quite so tacky.

 

[tg]

It is quite common for folks to use gun from an earler time for their persona, a person in 1770 using a fusil from 1750 would not likley have a gun that looked new this is a very legitimate reason to add patina to a gun, doing so does not make it look like an antique,there is a great difference in adding a few years wear to catch the gun up with your period and making it look 200 years old and we do not know what a 20 year old gun looked like 200 years ago,there was likely a wide range in appearanxce in guns of the same time period due to variables in usage and treatment.