On the plastic stocked double rifle question...

The bear hunting I've been doing lately up in the far north end of California, the terrain is rough and he hunting is tough.
I've been up and down numerous 1000-1400 ft rocky forested canyon faces in the past few weeks, and the next trip out will be in early November where I will likely be hunting in very cold rain and possibly snow.

Frankly, I'd love to have a *solid* plastic-fantastic stainless and (carbon/boron/kevlar/weave/etc) plastic boxlock ejector double rifle chambered in .458 for this kind of hunting.
I've owned and shot numerous McMillan stocked tactical and hunting rifles (still own a very accurate thirty caliber bolt gun like that) that could take enormous servings of abuse and just keep ticking along inside thier '1/2moa or better in any condition' performance envelope.

Satin stainless tubes and bombproof-stable stocks have a place somewhere. I'd even take the same thing with blue steel tubes.

--Tinker