I had one of the Custom KS's, an early one that came with a Brown stock which cracked and was replaced gratis by Rem with a McM but that is another story. Mine was bought used and was ported. I had the barrel cut back to 21 1/2" removing the ports and hunted elk with it twice taking a couple of nice bulls with the 260 gr Partition. I really could not tell the difference in recoil ported or not. It was a very, very accurate rifle, a dream to carry with it's 2.5-8X Leupy and recoil was not a big deal given the stock design. I think it weighed ~7 3/4 # or so all up. I kept the stock installing an ADL wood one and traded it off to a dealer in Alberta for NIB Savage 99A 250-3000. It has since gone down the road too. I do not know whose stock they are using these days?
