Using sprays, treatments and other voodoo gyrations to make two incongruent metals function in a rifle is not my idea of a good time. It didn't work properly so I dumped it. I can understand putting lipstick on a pig after 20 beers, but I just can't live with a rifle whereby I must literally find some temporary black magic special sauce to make it work right.

I think it's probably better to find an alternative build vs trying to overcome a manufacturer's technological triumph over common sense that falls short of the mark. Maybe I'm just a boring traditionalist - I prefer the tried and true, but I am absolutely open to technological advancement so long as it actually works properly. To my utter disappointment the Remington 700 titanium just didn't work properly, and I REALLY wanted to like that rifle!!!!!