I'm definately old school when it comes to rifles with walnut stocks and high gloss blued metal, but two of my now favorite rifles have plastic stocks and matte finish scopes.
When I bought my .300 Weatherby about 15 years ago, it was a Vanguard with a matte finish in a glossy, but plain walnut stock. Before I ever fired it, I ordered a AA Fancy Feather Crotch semi inleted walnut blank from Richards and finished and hand checkered it into beautiful stock. But it really hurt to take it out in foul weather, so my 7mm RM Remington 700 in it's Remington plastic stock became my foul weather rifle that I used on more, and especially international hunts where wet weather could be expected.
I have a couple of other Wby Vanguards, a .223 and a .308 Win, with matte finished stainless metal, in Griptonite plastic stocks. These are my weekly take to the range practice rifles and I like to feel of the Griptonite stocks.
Then a couple of years ago I saw an add for 2 long action Vanguard Griptonite stocks, so I bought them and made a foul weather stock for my .300 Wby with one, and I altered the other one to fit on my Rem 700 7mm RM barrel and action.
My .300 Wby Vanguard with it's Fancy walnut stock...
And in it's Griptonite stock...
And my 7mm RM Rem 700 in it's Griptonite stock...
I have Leupold variable CDL scopes on most of my hunting rifles. When hunting I have the scope's power set to the lowest level and the CDL zero set at 100 or 200 yds. That way all I have to do is aim and shoot at any animal closer than 200 yds, and usually if the animal is farther away than 200 yds, it's probably not spooked, and I'll have time to range the distance and adjust the scope for that distance.