I am, but it wasn't the 03, it was Mom's .308 Featherweight that gave me the flinch.
The .35 Whelen, when we put (BRNO VZ-24 8mm rechambered to .35 Whelen Ackley Improved)it back in Dad's fiberglass stock he picked int he 80's made me cry, in the walnut stock we found for it with the butt pad similar to the one shown on the thumbhole stock above, wasn't so bad.I could d hunt with it, but the fiberglass lightweight hard butt stock that doesn't fit me that Dad picked ("I want an ugly hunting rifle to beat around the woods.is brutal.")