Moving away from hand fitting is a good thing and if one can't beat it it means they have bad tooling.The new production is not quite there just yet, and sadly may never be. Going from 100% hand fit to an assembly cell process, you are going to give up the best levels of quality...no way around it. I looked at 6 Guide Guns, all new, before finding one that did not have a cracked/chipped stock, poor fit or canted barrel. The one I finally did find is a solid gun though...