So at best you’re getting an okay chin weld instead of the rock solid cheek weld I like. The cheek piece puts the eye level with the barrel, but not the scope. Something that was no surprise at all was that the comb on this stock, just like every other bolt action rifle I’ve fired this year, is nowhere near where it needs to be for a scope. Free floating the barrel is generally one of the first improvements made when trying to make a rifle more accurate, so seeing one that comes that way from the factory was a pleasant surprise. The only place the metal bits contact the stock is at the aluminum mounting blocks that the receiver mounts to (shown above), which keeps the stock from pushing the barrel off target and lets the barrel shift around a little during the firing process. There is a benefit from this hard stock that the Weatherby doesn’t get, which is a free floated barrel. Ruger tried to compensate with some roughed up patches on the forend and grip, but they aren’t all that aggressive. Not really an issue on the range, but in a tree stand or out on a hunt it might be an issue. Where the Weatherby Series 2 comes with a very grippy stock, this one feels like ti is going to slip out of my hands. It looks great, but there isn’t really a lot of “grippyness” to the stock. The stock on this gun is a rigid polymer (plastic) of some kind, which gives it a very slick feel in both senses of the word. There are a number of features that Ruger has built into this rifle (aluminum bedding, scope mounts from the factory, dual cam bolt…), but three are most important: the stock, the trigger and the magazine.
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