Originally Posted by SKane
I would put the heaviest scope I could possibly find on this one. smile

My first custom rifle was a .300 mag – a willowy 7.2# all-up.
One range session with that one was enough for me. I can't imagine getting proficient at longer ranges whilst getting pounded.


Mine too (if a Custom KS counts) but .300 Wby Mag and it was vicious. I shot it for a half a year, never could get it to shoot good (or I couldn't shoot it well) and it moved down the road. I was 18 and all the guys that worked in the gunshop where I worked swore by them for the Tx Panhandle where we hunted. My next one was a 10# .280 Improved 40° that I shot really well and used for the next ten years. Then came the NULA .257 Wby which kicked like the heavier 7mm. It was shootable and shot really well but I should have done a .284 Win instead. Not a single one of them ever had anything over a 3.5-10x40mm at any point in time and all but the .300 Wby were killers to 500yds.