I have it on solid first hand information from a few gentlemen in the industry that Remington only really expects a 250 to 300 round life on the 742/7400/750 family of rifles. If you think about how most of those guns are used, you can see where they are coming from I suppose. Most of those guns will see well less than 1 box/yr of use, some FAR less. Just as stalkingbear said, they are NOTORIOUS in 'smith shops for being regular customers, and many I know refuse to work on them. That being said, if kept clean I have seen fired and fired many fine shooting 742s and 7400s. But given the choice, I'd be all over that BAR. In fact one deer hunting buddy of mine uses an old, battered BAR 7mm Mag and an equally rough Leupold scope to harvest his limit of deer every year. He won't shoot anything else, though I just about have him talked into a slightly upgraded, newer Leupold.