I picked up my 450 bushmaster Friday from cabelas. I had lazik done two weeks ago so I've had blury vision and not been able to see well as they are in the healing process. I noticed after I got home the thread protector was missing so I called and left Ruger message. After the weekend my eyes are working a little better which allowed me to see missing bluing on the gun and on the picanty rail. Needless to say its getting shipped to Ruger to be completely reblued, a replacement picanty rail, and they are shipping a thread protector as well. Ruger was nice about it and told me a 5-10 day turn around time and is sending UPS to my house tomorrow to pick It up. Has anyone else had issues with their quality or bluing? That flat black bluing I swear I could rub it off with normal gun cleaners if I tried. It seems like all the manufacturers are using this same cheap process...it's why 99% of my rifles are stainless. My Remington ltr has the same type of cheap bluing on it and I have wear spots on it. Am I being too picky? If I was able to see it at the time I took delivery of it when I was at cabelas I would have told them to keep it. This is the third time in a row I have ordered I rifle from cabelas and it came either scratched, damaged, or missing parts. The first time I refused to purchase the rifle (Remington long range that was missing more bluing than this one)since they had one one the shelf that was flawless and had them switch it out. The second time I just ignorded the scratched up composit stock on the 77/44 and took it home anyways. But this time I called Ruger. I think all the firearms at cabelas get fondled and passed around to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to touch and dream about before someone buys them. I watched the counter guy open the sealed box that was transferred from another cabelas. I was thinking it was factory sealed but now I'm not. The box was pretty beat up as well. There was some bluing missing under the bolt handle as well. Am I being too picky for a $500 rifle? At least Ruger is taking care of it. It just reminds me not to buy any blued rifles anymore. If manifactures still blued like on my Remington 7600 from the eighties the bluing would last a lifetime.
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