RE: How do you break in a new rifle?
Yes, it is a very sweet gun.
Iwent ahead and put a limbsaver recoil pad on mine right out of the box and changed out the trigger spring for a lighter one and was very happy with those improvements. I didn't shoot it with the stock recoil pad or the stock trigger spring, but from the research I did the $50 spent on those 2 items is well worth it.