Personally, I don’t think so. When form follows function, all is well. Well, except for the Stoeger Double Defense. This is not a viewpoint shared by the unnamed author of Beauty is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to rifle stocks at Pennsylvania’s observer-reporter.com. “In one of my winter boredom stupors I looked at the cover [of American Rifleman] and it struck me. What I saw had to be one of the ugliest rifles I have ever laid eyes on, and it was made by none other than old traditional Savage . . . Like most things in life, be it automobiles, women or rifles, what appeals to one turns off another viewer. But to me, ugly is just that, ugly! The forearm was square with an ugly black foretip. To top off its overall tasteless stock, someone had fastened a pistol grip cap of some dark wood and it was the size of a kitchen saucer. There is no explaining taste.” But there is, it seems an explanation for ugly.
