Good to hear you were taken care of. I was gonna say that the rubber mag ring was a bad design and they started making them with the metal mag rings instead for a while now.
Still relatively new to the long range shooting and hunting gig. I also just harvested my first deer this past December here in the wild west (AZ). I got a lung shot on a mule deer at 200 yards with my ruger mark ii chambered in 6mm rem. Due to the lung shot he only stumbled about 15 yards and...