Didn't get screwed as of yet. And seeing I am in the capable hands of Chris Sells at HeymUSA, I doubt that's going to happen.

There's a lesson to all in this.

When I got the rifle home, I gave it a thorough cleaning. On cleaning the barrels I noticed something I first took to be rust. I then commenced with the Q tip cleaning. On the top of the barrel where the bridge joins the barrel I pulled out a lot of gunk. It looked like wax.

After I removed all of the crap, I noticed a solder line on the top of the barrel about 8 inches long. Not something one likes to see on a new rifle.

I took it to Chris to look at, and he noticed two small cracks where the trigger assembly was bored into the stock. Nothing huge, but not something you should see on a new rifle.

Chris found out from Heym that while I bought this rifle this year, she was manufactred in 2001, and changedhands from a German dealer to oneherin the US. What I was pulling out of the crevices with a Q Tip could very well have been old grease covered by 5 years of dust.

I know the guy that sold me the rifle, and it is my opinion that he would never wax a barrel down.

Even on new rifles, we need to remember that they may be several years old, and have been around the block several times at gun shows and perhaps even violated once or twice by double gun perverts.

With tht said, I think an inspection period for a new rifle should not be out of the question.

I'll let you know what Heym does, but I don't think I have to worry.