Oh, good lord! Don't buy it because it might break? :roll: I mean, yeah, sure it
might break, but what a tragedy life would be if every time we started to do something somebody ran up and told us all the things that could go wrong and we just sat back down again.
Just the advise of somebody that made the mistake of passing up to many opportunities because something "might go wrong," but I say buy it, shoot the snot out of it, show it off to your friends, maybe go hunting with it, let a kid shoot it for their big bore, hike and camp and explore with it. And if (or when it breaks) maybe you can get it fixed, or maybe you part it out and help out some other folks looking for parts. Or maybe you shove it in the back of the safe to pull out every now and than just to remember what a blast it was to shoot (FYI, they are a blast to shoot!
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And whats the worst that will come of it? Maybe you are out a couple hundred bucks?
Life is short, money comes and goes, and at twice your age I regret almost nothing I have done, but regret many, many things I didn't do, and many of those things that I didn't do where because I made the mistake of listening to 'what might go wrong.'
Be sure to post photos so we can all be jealous!