I'm seeing the same here in Nova Scotia. Few of the new generation have the same feeling for guns. Maybe it's because the old timers who died expressed their feelings differently or possibly, about their guns, hardly at all.
It seems newer gunners are indoctrinated with notions of utility, semis and pumps, bigger gauges and longer shells, low-maintenance composites and plastics, their guns less important than latest camo fashions from Cabela catalogues.
It doesn't bother me. It's their time, their turn. Maybe I indulge myself with fanciful notions of my years with poor men and their Ithacas, Stevens, Lefevers, Parkers and Belgians who related more to their guns as friends than mere acquaintances.
That time has gone.
