My newest info is that a few T3s have questionable stainless barrels. thats teh info I got. They said you can contact Tika at the website to find out if you may be in the questionable batch of tubes. Might take a week to get a reply on average. Bad tubes are not that uncommon every now and then. I don't think its a bad reflection on Tika though with common sense it should be all over their website and in magazines!!!! Remington and others have recalls every now and then and it hasn't hurt them that I can tell. Its just the way it is now and then.

Smokem-- thanks for the heads up. It allowed me to research and post the relevant data.

Jeff