My only complaint (left) about my 25 in .17 Hornet is the feeding of the cartridge. I do notice that if I put 4 rounds in the magazine, the first one will not chamber smoothly. IF I put 3 in, the first round will chamber smoothly about half the time.

Now, for brass reloading I'm not having any problems. I've already taken a small segment of brass and reloaded this "group" 4 or 5 times with no problems. I took my Nosler 20gr. loaded over 9.0gr. of H-110 to the range the other day. Accuracy is excellent at 100 and 200 yards. I just forgot to bring along my chronograph. Grrrrrr.

Plinkin....as far as the matt finish, these rifles are purpose made for varmint hunting. Sun glare (or at night, light glare or moon glare) is not good when your coyote or fox hunting. The matt finish is the best for this purpose made rifle.

MHO

Dave