On the one hand, it's not cool that you had to go through all that, on the other, at least you should be able to recoup most of your money since you won't be trying to pass off a used rifle with issues. I'm going to try a lightly used Dracos 260 barrel on mine as well as the Tubbs final finish kit on the factory barrel and I may even have the factory barrel shortened a couple inches in hopes that it will shoot with the ammo I already have loaded because I have far too much loaded ammo that has always shot well in 20" barrels and I don't have anything that shoots well in this 22" except half a box of 168 Fed GMM.