I have the L series it is a pre garcia .243 Forester, maybe the A series was after Garcia bought them? I hate this gun, ever since I bought it..it shoots everything I put through it and I don't have to screw around with it to make it shoot, it shoots multipe factory loads to the same point of impact, then on top of everything else everything I point it at gets a hole shot into it..the last time I had it out it really pissed me off, shooting from the side of a pine tree and busting clay pigeons at our 120 yard improvised range....just not any fun at all..nothing to work on damn it.