The R10 is a nice rifle, it's well made, the stock is nice and chunky and fits well to most people.
The early magazines had some indexing issues, these have been sorted now, all new magazines are self indexing.
The R10 had a lot of bad press when it was first launched a few years back, but BSA have reworked the regulators and managed to fix the earlier issues.
Why don't you look for a decent second hand one instead of buying a new one, try it out before you buy it, there are always some good r10 package deals coming up in the sales section.
ATB
Ray
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