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I fail to understand why a "driftwood" Blaser is on a Rigby Corbett rifle re-creation thread? That horrible driftwood rifle deserves its own thread, but not on this one. I should have shifted it straight away when it was first posted. Completely off topic.

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The replica was built as a new rifle but given a patina to emulate the knocks and age of the original.

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I don't think its "off topic," given that the topic was "patina" on a new rifle, although admittedly I chose an extreme example (the Blaser) to make the point. "Patina"on a new rifle? No thanks. Would Jim Corbett have wanted a pre-distressed rifle with a factory "patina"? I doubt it.