Thank you Stubble, that is my thinking exactly. Now, I have had success with Weatherby and have bought at least7 of their guns. I will see what Criterion says on Mon, but the guy fromKreiger when I dropped the gun off and he looked at it,the guy from Criterionwhen he called me on Tues, and of coarse, the last phone call I had with the guy from Kreiger. All indications, physical reactions, and verbal exchangesare consistant with the barrel NOT BEING ACriterion.