I would take one of each and get one free and pay for one making them 1/2 price.!!! you miss the point. I will agree with you that there is nothing that makes my socks run up and down my legs like fine cane. And I have a bunch of them, Nice ones. I have collected cane rods for 35 years. on there best day they simply are not the fishing tool that graphite is. We buy rods for lots of reasons. I have wood stocks on all of my guns… except the ones I use.
Rich, with all respect, I think it is exactly the point. A person faced with paying the same price for a synthetic cannon, and a piece of art, which would they choose? I’m glad that for you money is insignificant. That’s not the world a lot of us live in.
Oh, and all my gun stocks are wood. Plastic stocks, though functional, are droll.
I’ll take the non-boo rod. Reasons: it will have an unconditional lifetime warranty, will not be affected by variations in climate, and it is not made from a food product which is also a grass. (that last one should light some fires!)
I’m all for amazing craftsmanship of natural products, but not in an arena where the tool will be involved in bush-wacking and subduing wild animals.
I have wood stocks on all of my guns… except the ones I use.
For skeet an’ stuff I’ll have no problems pulling out an old Purdy I found for a deal, … for Varmints its ALL synthetics. Depends on the application at hand.