Alot of the stories, you hear on forums is based off of hearsay. When you start digging, you find out most never even had one.

I myself have had a 7400 for over 2 decades and have killed more deer than you could count. It only shot 2MOA or there abouts with coreloks, but didn't need any more than that when I lived in WV/Ky. I went on to more sexy rifles, and then moved to a slug state, and it sat collecting dust for 5 years. So I took it out last year and shot a doe. Still worked fine.

There are people who has had issues. Even after all the cleaning. But when you get one that will eject good, your set. I don't recommend it for a target gun. Just sight her in every year, and take it hunting, and I bet ya it will last a lifetime.

I was having POI issues, and I found the forarm, needed to be adjusted not to push on the reciever when tighteing the forarm down.