I have had one on my lightweight CLR 7 mag for some time now and have been very pleased. It has held up to the recoil and has been reliable in the "dialing" dept. with an old Stoney Point knob that I found a long time ago. The eye relief is it's only weak point in my opinion but I have been able to work with that, Never had any "scope eye" either with many shots taken over the Stoney point bipod prone.
I briefly tried swapping it out a couple of years ago with a Leupold 3-9 compact w/ CDS turret but missed the extra magnification and dialing reliability of the Timberline and changed it back!
As a side note, I had an American made 4.5-14 Burris Short-Mag but actually thought the Timberline was "cleaner" to look through... didn't see any of the "internals" so I got rid of the Short-Mag and kept the Timberline! Get the Ballistic Plex reticle if you get one because the Stoney Point knobs for the old Burris scopes are hard to come by and Burris will NOT retrofit a turret to these.
