Muley, You going soft on us? A big ol mtn man like you shooting those sidelocks should make even a hard recoil pad seem tame.
RASOB - it will be interesting to see what CVA has to say about the chipping issue. If I were to design the rifle I would have stopped the weathershield type coating just outside the crown. Afterally the barrel is SS. That was one of the pluses for me in buying the Accura over the Triumph. I wanted the SS and not a weather shield coated chrome moly barrel.