Not too risky, because I inspected EVERYTHING in detail and being a gunsmith had the right tools to do it. In detail I took it compleatly apart (I even pulled the barrel) then visably inspected everything. I magnafluxed the action body, bolt, bolt head and barrel and did another inspection. Then I used a borescope and checked out the inside of the barrel, reassembled it set the headspace and gave it to a friend of mine who is also a gunsmith. I asked him to go over it and see if he could find anything wrong with it. He could not. So after we both inspected it I shot five rounds of PPU ammo through it that was remote fired. When that did not blow it up I fired five rounds off a bench. It put them inside 3" at 100 yards. So far that is the only ammo it has fired and that has been several years ago. It actually came in to the gunstore I work in a lot of five rifles we ordered from Century Arms. It was the only one that was DP marked and I never could figure out why it was DP marked, but the owner of the store did not want to sell it to a customer so let me have it at cost.