It arrived by UPS 2:10 this afternoon. I did open it and look at it BUT I did make myself go back and finish my school work and gather some tax information.

But, here it is 8:00 pm all my, most of my chores are finished so I did get to check it out.

Triple Se7en is correct, the laminated stock really could be slick in wet weather but i think that might be an easy work-around. The next thing I really like, 28" barrel but a really short rifle, the gun the stock fit and feel great.

Cleaned the whole thing up and then I got to playwith it a bit.I removed the breech plug and started pushing things through. To my surprise, everything I have went through just fine with just ram rod pressure. No short starter required. .451 & .452's in all the variety of sabots that I have. .452's in an HPH-24 worked just fine,.452's in Harvesters, .452's in Noslers all of them insert in the QLA place Ram rodon top and push - Great... Next step .458's and a MMP HPH Orange sabots - not a problem pushed through one long stoke. Finally 10mm MMP-HPH-50/40sabots. I really was set for a disappointment here - but not to be - insert pushed right on through. I am a happy camper. No sign of the wash-board barrel problem that some people have reported.

Now, I really do wish it were Friday and I could wake up to it being Saturday tomorrow so I could go shoot it.

My scope base should be here this week also so I'll will have to go sight it in this weekend - rain-snow-cold -what ever...

I am excited about this gun.

First report completed...