The Factory Repair Center did an excellent job replacing the cracked stock and fixing the faulty lockwork on my dad's early Remlin that was made just after making the decision to take over producing Marlins with zero assistance from the original workforce. That aside, it was a tack driver from day one (when it fired). Afterwards with the addition of a few aftermarket enhancements (ejector, safety deletion, and shortened mag spring) it's been wonderful. Got to watch him kill the same deer twice inside of ten seconds after the reaction to the FIRST heart shot was misinterpreted.