I just re-read this old thread that was linked from another. I don't know if MD will see this, but I believe he has one of the O'Connor commemoratives, and am wondering what it weighs (with whatever scope he has on it now) compared to the No 2 that he weighed at the beginning of this thread.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
