Thanks guys, that's the kind of advice for which I was was looking. I learned long ago to buy quality and you only pay once. Last I hunted was in the 70s, but when my father died in '79 I only went back to visit my mother. I can't wait to do some squirrel hunting and eventually move back permanently. I've already been scouting out the firing range west of the Mississippi and decided to live somewhere between Thibodaux and Baton Rouge.