The barrel has been shortened to 23 inches. I covered up the white line spacers on the grip cap and butt pad because I have found over the years that I am allergic to that sort of thing. I put an old reliable Redfield scope on it but found I needed to rotate the scope 90 degrees to keep the brass from hitting the scope cap when they were ejected from the rifle. After that it feeds and ejects wonderfully. The single stack bottom loading magazine is different but seems to work fine. Dies and brass came with the rifle so it will be shot in the next few days.