Cyla, I'm not trying to quibble over the claimed 8 month time frame.
There were 2 reports of failure in one thread on the muzzle loading forum and now this report from THR which makes three that I've read about.
A poster named Sgiles said that the exact same thing happened to him.
The original report of failure there reportedly belonged to 2FG who said that the photos that others posted were his.--->>>
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/306625/tp/1/
There's really no way to know how many guns have failed. Not everyone visits the same forums or reports it to the public.
Only Lyman would know how many failures were reported [to them].
Even if there were only 3 failures so far, no one may know the full extent for years to come.
Regarding the CVA Apollo recall from the late 1990's, the CVA website states that they recovered close to 97% of all of those recalled rifles that were sold.
And I saw one of those Apollos for sale just recently on a major gun selling website which is ~20 years later.
No matter how many guns with actual defects that were produced and which slipped by the inspectors,
we don't know how many more were stockpiled in the Investarms or Lyman warehouses that weren't distributed to the public.
There's no doubt that this boondoggle is costing Investarms or their insurance company a bunch of money.
To recover, replace, produce & ship over 3,000 barrels and breech plugs across the Atlantic and then back & forth across the country, plus any other additional damaged parts involved,
plus to provide cleaning kits as gifts to some of those affected, and also considering all of the incorrect barrels that were reported by customers to have been received in error, that must be quite expensive.
Not to mention the damage to each company's reputation.
Investarms quality has been observed to have been slipping lately too as someone posted photos about the less than stellar fit & finish of his new rifle.
And when there's one complaint made public it's often considered to be representative of many more complaints not aired in public.
I wonder why Cabela's not only stopped selling Investarms guns under the Cabela's label, but none at all, such as the GPR that they used to?
Cabela's now only sells traditional single shot BP rifles and pistols that are made by Pedersoli & Traditions.
While Cabela's decision may not have had anything to do with Investarms quality control, their decision may have affected the quality of Investarms products since then.
And while this has nothing to do with the recall itself, it still may all be somehow related.
At the very least, it indicates a recent downturn of sorts for Investarms, one of the most popular brands a decade ago.
All companies have their ups and downs, but right now their arrow sadly seems to be pointing down IMO.