Have been unsuccessful in locating an original stock so far and finally ended patching the one that was broken by UPS.

UPS ended up denying the claim which angered me to no end. They handled it very poorly (lack of response and taking months before they ever told me anything. The preferred to string me along with "these things take time"...and I would suggest to anyone, be very careful about shipping AND insurance with UPS. It would probably be better to ship thru an FFL and let them us the US Postal Service. In the end, after I was the one who started the claim, and kept up with the claim, they finally informed me, by me calling them and demanding to know what was going on with the claim, that the claim was denied. Besides that, the claim monies supposedly would have gone to the guy that shipped and paid for the insurance. Funny, because I paid for it (you know how Gun Broker works), but that is how UPS works. So beware, if you end up with damaged goods, they will look to the person who shipped the item as the recipient of insurance payments. Just ain't right.

Looking forward to finally getting to the range to see if this hunk of metal was worth the money.

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" all the parts look like they were built to last really ingenious how the extraction and feed works all controlled by the channels in the receiver just awesome."

These were designed and built in the days before manufacturers came up with the idea of "Designed Obsolescence"...