Butch, this is not a hunting rifle as it weighs 20+ pounds. The lead sled can wreck a stock if misused, too much weight on a light hard kicker with a stock of the wrong wood and grain pattern. As for scopes, I think a $2400 IOR will not come apart.
I only have 20 pounds in the bags and the sled is on a padded mat so it slides back about 3".

Cheap stocks and scopes could fail but I don't own any cheap scopes or fragile stocks that I need a sled to shoot.

It is a 1000-2000 yard gong ringer and that's all. It does that very well.

Nitriding bears no relationship to case hardening as the latter is very fragile and can be destroyed with 4 ought steel wool.

Be looking forward to seeing you boys 1000 yards guns.

I do have another that is only 7 years younger than me and I shoot it off plain old bags as it is only a 300 H&H. Checkered by Roy's shop and went to Perry twice.

best to you and yours, Larry

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