Thanks for the encouraging words, guys - I just had to vent. I hope that it is a quick and trouble free fix.

It just frosts me that an out of the box defect wasn' t taken care of by BPS (I could understand if I had it for a week or two and discovered something after shooting it for a while). I didn' t pay for a refurbished or repaired rifle - if I wanted that I would have looked around for a used gun dealer.

I' ll keep ya posted on how it works out!!