Las,
Thanks for your concern, it is most definitely unloaded and if I remember right the lower pipe stuck out a little further making a " corner". A minor fall would only add to that old battle axes character marks!
Yeah, I look for corners or intersections for that, having had one or two fall when not so.! And I don't buy expensive guns when cheaper ones work just fine. One of my favorites is a Savage-Fox SXS (pre-curser to the 311) that I got with my first Lab, over 40 rears ago. Shoots like a son of a gun, despite the spray on varnish and press checkering.
No need to remove those dog scratches the Lab put on it sometime in the first week I had it...and that much reason not to. He was a great dog!
