I'm not in here much, sorry to have not posted sooner. I and a couple friends bought bought several SSis last year. Mine is in .223. I don't think they are worth the much higher price as they have heavy trigger pulls that are not the easiest to adjust according to my gunsmith. They are also not finished as smoothly as one would expect for the money. On opening, one can feel the roughness in the movement, not just stiff from being tight. Most of the rifles don't want to eject the empties, the ejector seems to ride over the rim. This has not happened to any of the shotguns that I know of. Opening the action is kind of a pain, it is a break open like the NEF but the opening operation does not work well with the hand placement. On opening, one generally grips the fore end with one hand and pushes down and forward on the trigger guard/opening lever. When making this motion, one also has to pull back with the forward arm which makes it awkward to then pull the barrel assembly down to break the gun open. The gun is reasonably accurate, all things considered but I don't think it is worth the much higher price than the NEF I had originally planned to buy. Extra barrels are available and are supposedly interchangeable with out headspace concerns. I have doubts on the veracity of the claim but haven't tried a barrel swap with anyone yet. There are also fewer choices in calibers; 223, 22/250, 243, 270, 308, 30/06, and 12ga. Heavy barrels are available in 223 and 22/250 and the 12 ga comes in 24" turkey or rifled models. We bought ours for not much more than an NEF, for some reason a local store had them marked for $220 and another store gave most of us $50 if they couldn't match the price which they wouldn't. If it weren't for this deal, I would have gone with NEF in 30/30 and 223. uglydog
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