country1---Good post and spot on! If anybody has a rifle that has enough recoil that it hurts to shoot it from the bench off their shoulder, there is only one comment I can make and that is to get rid of the friggin thing and go down to something smaller that you can handle. A cradle or bags to hold the gun steady is one thing. To put one with significant recoil in anything that doesn't give with the shot, whether the whole thing goes backwards or has a spring that takes the recoil like the shoulder would, is flat out asking for trouble. One guy on another site said he had a lead sled loaded with umpteen pounds of weights and was using it for a .338 mag. He couldn't understand why he was shearing ring screws every 10 or 20 shots! It's a wonder his scope didn't fly apart too, but for the fact that it was an expensive Leupold that I like. Even at that, I told him the scope would probably be next if he kept that up!