Even with those cheap"substitute parts"its a cut above any thing out there,good thing to remember when you have to use the rifle for real and those cheap"substitute parts"fail and break,for the money you shell out they can afford to be using top quality,I own 2 bushmasters and one RRA,excelent quality,I always hear the colt people say"the bushmaster has a plastic trigger gaurd"well its true but at least if it breaks it dont get me killed,I hate colt rifles the late model ones,out of spec parts ,larger diameter pins,plastic in places where it should not be,I have to say I love their 1911s but even then I have to replace the plastic mainspring housing and the plastic trigger,on the other hand the python .357 was always made good,its a nice collectable but dont trust your life to"cheap substitute parts".