Don't expect any customer support from Rossi if you ever need it. I recently bought the R17B. It didn't come as a matched pair. I was just itching to try out the new .17HMR and the price was right. The factory open sights are very poor to say the least so I called Rossi and ordered a scope base for the rifle and was told the bases were made in Brazil and had to be backordered. After 3 weeks of waiting for the so called Brazil made scope base, I called Weaver to see if they were making a base for the rifle. Much to my surprise, I was told Weaver is making the base for Rossi and I had one here in 3 days. I called Rossi and told them to cancel my backorder and thanked them for feeding me the line of BS about the base coming from Brazil and I also told them I would never buy another Rossi product as long as I lived. If you want to take the chance of poor or no customer service, the little rifle does shoot nice and is real accurate.