Either you're not shooting a Browning Silver/Maxus, Winchester SX2/SX3 or FN SLP or you're in the minority. It doesn't take much of a search to find a lot of people who have had issues with broken gas springs.
I've heard plenty of guys with 6.0 Powerstroke trucks tell me they haven't had any problems, doesn't mean they're not huge piles of [bleep].....know what I mean?
LOL! Ok dude. I'm actually the first shooter to have used the Maxus in competition. I used to shoot for Browning.
When the Maxus was developed, two other shooters and I made a trip to Argentina with a 3 man film crew and tortured the 3.5" prototypes for 4 days and thousands of rounds on doves, pigeons and ducks. After that, I used the prototype in competition for a year until Browning started manufacturing them, then went to the carbon fiber Sporting gun.
I have a Gold Sporting that I've put over 100,000 rounds through it.
Never have I heard of this or had it happen to me or any other Browning shooter.
Must be lucky as hell I guess. LOL