Been packing a Model 7KS in .350 mag for a few years, and its become one of my main go-to guns for timber.

few years ago, i was getting down outa the ladder after an evening hunt..... had popped a doe about an hour before and she fell in her tracks, so i let her lay, thinking i might have a buck pass through. Never happened, so at dark , i'm clipping the gun onto the paracord rope to lower it down, and i get tangled up somehow and down goes that KS in a 20 foot freefall.

SSSSSCHHHHIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

gun falls muzzle first, and ends up sticking straight into the ground like an arrow. i run down the ladder like a wild squirrel, and pull it outa the ground. crown is intact, barrel not dinged, only had a couple of slight exterior surface scratches. i was damn lucky.

decided last year i'd get the finish upgraded to a full cerakote.

before:


Ti cerakote color...will get a better pic outside, dark in here & doesnt show it, but the Ti has a bit of "sparkle" to it.

Looks very nice! Who coated it?

Looks good! What kind of bottom metal is that?
I bet that thing kicks like a mule.

yeah they kick a bit...doesn't take long to sight it in.....

sort of semi retired mine, as I've grown interested in smaller calibers for deer these days

805...local fellow has been doing these, so far he's done several for us in the last month....he's dome good work, and FAST turnaround, most of the stuff i've given him has been 2-3 days turnaround.

Sambo...it has the factory bottom metal on there; dunno if they used the same on the custom shop guns as was put on the standard guns.

he did another one last week, and i have one coming tomorrow as well...last weeks job was also a model 7, in .250/3000 :