DrJ,the sad but true fact about Guns and Ammo is that this magazine(like many others) derives a great portion of its' profits in advertising dollars.This is a conflict of interest of the worst kind,where they are reviewing a product for a manufacturer who pays them big dollars to advertise in their magazine.You will rarely get an unbiased opinion on any gun review in G&A,add the fact that G&A is not going out and testing a production model gun,they are useing a rifle or pistol that Carbon or whomever sends in for testing.These test rifles are gone over and over by the man. to insure when a company like G&A gets it,it will perform flawlessly.If you want a NO BS review on any firearm the only place is Gun test newsletter.They use the same guns that you or I would buy at a dealer as a practice they will not review a "Test" gun that a manufacturer sends them,they actually go out and buy the production model,they accept NO ADVERTISING and make the money only on subscription fees alone.