If I had ever owned a high dollor lever gun, this one might have graded a 4 star. The gun looks nice.
I mounted a 1 to 4 scope on the gun and hunt at 1 power. The rifle shoots better than I can hold it and, on my gun, barrel heat up does not change the point of impact. Recoil is brisk and the recoil pad is misnamed. It is too hard to help much with recoil. Maybe it should be called a thick buttplate. I have found the solution to developing a flinch. I have a friend load the gun for me while my back is turned, sometimes she loads an empty case and somtimes a live round. If she sees any movement when I drop the hammer on an empty case she is more than happy to point my error out. This will corrects the problem before it becomes an issue. Try it sometime.
Though this is too much gun for whitetail I use it because I like doing so. ;-) I killed one buck with it last year. He went down where he stood from a round through the neck. It was a 405 grain mid-power reload. I looked at the wound channel and the bullet neither struck the spine or any large blood vessel. I think the impact in the muscle was enought to damage the buck's spinal cord.
C. D. Jetton
