Plenty of wood and steel at the LGS's here that I visit, but they are pretty good sized operations.

They also have lots of plastic options for your perusal as well...

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Originally posted by wrightd:
It seems the way of wood and steel are a thing of the past. I haven't perused retail gun racks in a while, but the inventory in most recent walkabouts don't look like they used to. I understand how time marches on, but I'm not sure anyone is really making wood and steel guns any more. With the exception of certain classes of clay target guns, I imagine the market for new and old guns made of walnut and blue steel is just plain old gone, old news, nada, kaput, permanently disappeared.

What say you ?

I say no

sure plastic fantastic is very heavy nowadays and if you're LE or MIL thats what you'll be getting basically, but at my LGS's there are a lot of choices still for wood and steel, many of them low priced and used.

What about S&W revolvers (new or used) or Rugers or other revolvers I suppose..

CZ75's-fullsize, compact, RAMI (used), they are metal and nice and heavy, surely there are wood grips, they are very value priced too imo.

The resurgence of Browning Hi-Powers from every manufacturer is another metal/wood grips gun.

Also Beretta still makes a lot of wood and steel firearms, albeit alloy frames.

Definitely market is saturated with various nice 1911's (wood and steel at its finest imo)

Used SIG's and everything else metal has come to reasonable prices in my area (varying high 400's - low 700s generally) ......

I see a number of newer lever actions, and AK's in wood and steel

those guns are, if in good condition, likely to outlast mine or your life.

I see you people have at least moved on past that newfangled smokeless powder.

But seriously, many of my new gun purchases have been steel/wood: Pythons, 226x-five, p210A; and a most of my used gun purchases as well.

They've just become the pricier option, therefore less mass produced.

If you are a fan of blued metal and wood, walk into any high end dealer (Joel Etchen, Elite, Pacific, etc) selling competition shotguns for trap, skeet and sporting clay guns (i.e. Krieghoff, Perazzi, Kolar, Cesear Guerini, Blaser, Silver Seitz, Ljutic, Beretta and Browning). You will be hard pressed to find nearly anything other than blue steel and wood. There will be an occasional semi auto in polymer (i.e. Beretta, Benelli, and Fabarm but those will be very tiny in number when compared to the more traditional competition shotguns. For traditionalists, the world of competition shotguns will feel very familiar and almost guaranteed unlikely to change at any time in the future.

wrightd: "It seems the way of wood and steel are a thing of the past"

My Remington 700 in 7mm Remington Magnum would disagree with you.

PC