The retailer would have benefitted with a serious sit down with a few end users. Anyone who pops a 3”er in this gun deserves what he gets.

I suppose I got lucky it didn’t have 26” tubes, as all the gun writers at the time were convinced that is what everyone should buy. The gun was built to a price point, the fitting of the stock to the action could have been a bit better, but, then I wouldn’t use it in the rain. The recoil with regular hunting loads is pretty fierce, of late, I have taken to using 2 1/2” 7/8ths loads in it. I own a 6 1/2 lb Darne Halifax that seems to fit about the same that the recoil doesn’t bother me anywhere near as much. Before anyone says anything, the weight, the pitch and other stock measurements are almost identical:

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Don’t have a good answer for that.

Merry Christmas, Kyrie.

Best,
Ted