Thread: Rifle stocks as a carbon sink

For a start, a rifle will last for 100 years.

The wooden stock will deteriorate little if at all when looked after.
Linseed oil is fixed CO2 from the atmosphere too, not fossil.
How much of a Walnut tree goes into stocks and how much is left to rot or burn and retun its C to the atmosphere ? Yet even waste would be carbon neutral if we keep growing more walnut to replace it.

Does anyone know what's the carbon balance of making a carbon fibre stock ? Or wrap barrel ? And do thet last indefinitely or only 20 years ?

Obviously, plastic and fibreglass are based on fossil hydrocarbons and should have stayed in the ground.

Aluminium has been described as solidified electricity. So if made in NZ from local hydro. Could be neutral as long as we dont have to fire up a fossil plant to enable it ... but if made in AU where they rely on coal the equation would be different.

I've been thinking abou this for 10 minutes now. Is it really a no brainer or random fantasy ?

are we talking all rifles or just the hunting ones

I think there are quite a few smouldering ones after just a month or less of use releasing their carbon back to the air

My question is, were all the firearms in the recent buyback recycled or just thrown into landfill? Doesn't say much for the Government if they weren't recycled and put to good use making something else!

Yes the buyback was a great opportunity. Recycle the steel and landfil the wood. Has anyone seen a recycling triangle on a plastic stock ? @tikka owners ?

When you go to use your rifle hunting/range do you walk from home, take a horse or drive?

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Yes the buyback was a great opportunity. Recycle the steel and landfil the wood. Has anyone seen a recycling triangle on a plastic stock ? @tikka owners ?

Raises issues about recycling centres being licenced to receive firearm parts...

I love the sound of absurdity in the morning!!!

Everything from the earth is neutral....not like any new compounds are made up...she will just chew us up, spit us out and start again (worst case)

Originally Posted by Bert 71

My question is, were all the firearms in the recent buyback recycled or just thrown into landfill? Doesn't say much for the Government if they weren't recycled and put to good use making something else!

I suggested if they had been repurposed for our military we would be one of the best equiped in the world...if they had been put into storage we could have gifted them to Ukraine..but no dice..into the crusher they went...criminal waste.

agree Gibo......mother earth got sick of the dinosaurs and chewed them up....we will go the same way sooner or later..best not dwell to much on that or someone will cry religion discussion and thread get canned....
when I miss a shot I just say Im replenishing the copper deficiency in the soil

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

agree Gibo......mother earth got sick of the dinosaurs and chewed them up....we will go the same way sooner or later..best not dwell to much on that or someone will cry religion discussion and thread get canned....
when I miss a shot I just say Im replenishing the copper deficiency in the soil

When I miss a shot I just say "bugger".

Maybe I'm not understanding what the OP is saying/asking but why is this even a subject to discuss? Am I meant to feel ashamed for owning plastic rifles?

If one of my shots hit. I stand in awe going "how did that happen".any ducks i get ,inevitably die of heart failure due to laughing as my stream of steel whizzes past arse feathers like a poli on holiday .