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When it comes to shotguns, it seems every upland bird hunter has a slightly different vision

of what their ideal wing shooting shotgun is, which is exactly the kind of thinking we welcome

and encourage at Upland Gun Company.

Every Upland-G company gun is handcrafted and finished by RFM in Italy.

With quality components and expert craftsmanship, your Upland-Gun Company shotgun is built to your standard, both functionally and aesthetically. From choosing the barrel length, grip style, trigger setup, engraving options, and even selecting the piece of wood used on your shotgun, you truly are limited only by your imagination. And with included custom stock dimensions, you can be sure your Upland-G shotgun will shoot just as well as it looks and feels. Head over to Uplandguncom and try out our web and 3D gun builders to begin crafting your ideal Upland shotgun today. You'd be shocked at the stuff that I pulled out of guns, you know, pine needles and ferns and feathers and, you know, all sorts of stuff. We should be working on our shooting and our shotguns. We're going to talk guns today. At what point would somebody consider, I should send this in for a full strip and clean? What does that entail? And what should I be looking for to say, yeah, I might need this? If all of a sudden you feel like the front trigger got significantly lighter or significantly

heavier, little changes like that, we all kind of learn how our guns feel when we're using them. You know, if you start opening and closing it and it's functioning, if the gun's clean, but yet there's some type of hitching the giddy up or a gritty feeling or something like that, that's something you'd want to have checked out right away. You know, and again, if there's traumatic event, like you drop the gun or something falls on it, that's when you'd want to have the wood inspected to make sure there isn't some damage internally there. Do you do more harm than good by, you hear people say, you know, put a drop of oil on your stock and rub it in and gradually condition it over time? I mean, is that something we should be thinking about,

can we do it successfully and not ruin the stock? I mean, how should we think about that?

This is a secret between you and me, Nick, the oils that we use on the stocks.

Hey, everyone, Nick Larson here, host of the Bird Shop podcast, the show where we go beyond the flush to explore the full upland hunting experience with guests from all across the outlands,

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