sorry, been busy. I am simply relaying my personal experience with him, i have no comment on anyone else's, other than i guess you got lucky. Kirby Allen's experience with him was also not good. sadly, this was the first rifle i purchased off the forum and I wound up buying it from a douchebag. I bought a 338 custom that tyler told me was brand new. turned out he had tried doing stuff to it and jacked it all up and used the forum to dump it, using kirby's name to do it. when i got it, it had a completely stripped action screw, including the threads in the receiver. not being affordable to send to kirby, i spent 300 locally to get it fixed. few other things wrong with it as well. I contacted kirby after i got it and he confirmed he sent a perfect rifle to tyler, tyler screwed it up, and dumped it. he also confirmed a few other things about tyler's character.
live and learn.