I never had problems with it functioning. Actually it held up to several thousand rounds, just had to wipe it off every 3 shots! Exactly 3, no exaggeration.
Well you have to account for a lot of factors, like people buying dirt cheap guns and defending them relentlessly because they have never experienced a good gun. Then you have the people that have spent way too much on a gun and defend them relentlessly to justify it. (Cough Sig cough cough...
Just throwing this out there, I had the lasermax guide rod for my 21 and after 3 rds you couldn't see the laser because of the carbon build up. Not trying to crush your dreams just save you a couple hundred bucks. You wouldn't think it would get dirty but it did.
You have no idea how right you are! I've had my basement flood about 7 times during storms, every time for a different reason. The best part is that the basement was finished, original 70's style when I bought and had never had a drop of water in it. Stayed dry for 35 years or so until the first...
Yeah it has the dovetail. I've decided to forego all the headaches and just go with the milled dovetail and get back to shooting it. It does seem like a bad decision to put a pic-rail on it. The metal is thin and SOFT! I didn't have any dovetail rings sitting around but I've got them on the way.
So the 597 I've had for six weeks is a POS just like my VTR was! 0 for 2 with Remington! Shoot the thing twice and couldn't get it to zero. So I sit down at the workbench today to go through my rings and rail to make sure everything is right, and what do I find? Two of the three screw holes...