Thanks for the replies, I guess the best thing to do is to give it to crosman, its worth the shot. If they can't see their way to cover it, I guess I can get out the sledge hammer, my guess is that one or two good wacks should do it! I really do find it hard to believe that they lag sooo far behind production with replacement parts for these things... how hard could it be to pull a few of everything off the assembly line to have a few spares on hand, seems it would be a lot cheaper to replace a barrel for someone than to replace the whole gun... heck, I'd be more than happy to pay for a barrel than to go through the rigors of re-seasoning and re-sealing one of these( I did actually enjoy tearing it down, though; it added something to the pride of ownership) I'll post as to what crosmans response is to the situation.