(This is not a reply to outdoorslover)

I own a NEF and have now fired it over 600 times. I do like it. I like it alot. Not anymore than my T/C hawken though, or any less either. Also, I am sure that I don't like it any more that Catus likes his Buckhorn.

I think the important thing is that we buy what feels right to each of us. There isn't a person here who didn't work hard to earn the money which purchased their rifle. I believe each deserves to enjoy what his hard earned money has purchased.

I'm with sabotloader on this one. For every idiot who loaded 3 pellets and left his ramrod in the barrel, there are literally "tens, if not hundreds, of thousands" of individuals who concientiously and safely shoot and hunt with rifles whose barrels are of Spanish manufacture.

My advice to anyone is to shoulder as many rifles as you can. Get one which feels rightand get the "best" rifle your budget can buy. You'll spend many times more than the cost of your rifle in powder, bullets, and primers/caps.

Let's let everyone enjoy their rifles.