This thread could make one paranoid expecting stuff to break or fail at a critical moment!

Apart from operator error, I've had many scope failures, new rifles that were not finished in manufacture, a CZ550 in .458 Win Mag that went "BOOM!" when the safety was let off at the end of a hunting day (IT WAS POINTED AT AN EMBANKMENT A FEW FEET AWAY!), and the same rifle split the stock at the range from forend tip through the sling swivel stud, a new Rem 673 in .350 RM with an unfinished chamber that my "smith" finished, and dumped a magazine full of ammo during a bear hunt, an 1895 Marlin in .45-70 (my 4th) that had a bent follower that wouldn't lift cartridges into battery, etc.

But newly manufactured rifles that worked as expected/promised were from Savage, Sako & Tikka, and Ruger. Apart from those (several of each), I've owned Winchesters, Brownings, Remingtons, NEF and a custom plus a semi-custom.

Bob
www.bigbores.ca

Last edited by CZ550; 12/02/22.

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