I have to agree with Shooting Star. Communications with customers could/should have been better, but the final product was, for me, well worth the wait. Complaints from some about "smooth ribs" and "proud wood" (I didn't realize these were automatically faults) aside, the RBL seems to be a pretty good value for a machine made gun. I've had mine a month and had to send it back for repair of an ejector, but even so the work was done correctly and the gun shipped back to me in less than 24 hours complete with apologies from the much-maligned Lou.