That's bloody awful. No excuse for that barrel to make it out of the shop. Just another example of CVA's poor quality control and why so many people are against them. If they let that miserable excuse for a barrel get past, just what do you think happens to the ones with poor stressing and other things that can't be seen easily but are even more deadly? I see people saying, well mine is good and never had a problem. And that may be so. But even just 1 out of a 100 getting by is 1 too damn many. These aren't toys that one can just say, awww it broke, oh well. These are highly dangerous pieces of equipment that can maim and kill the operator with just the simplest of mistakes.