Hi and Welcome to our forums.
I appreciate the feedback very much.
Putting full Autocockers into production has been a huge undertaking for our small company and we believe that for them to be a success it is important that our dealers are familiar with the products and can support them.
We enlisted the help of our dealers, many of whom, have a huge amount of experience building Autocockers (more than we do) to build the first guns for their customers in order to offer custom options and so that they can support and warranty the guns they build for the customers.
All of the Predator's that have been released so far were built by our dealers. It seems like some are doing a better initial job of that than others. I apologize because your gun should never have come to you in the condition it has.
Can you tell me who you bought it from? Have you told them about the issues as well? Please email me privately if you wish at sales@inceptiondesigns.com
Points 1-5 are clear that the gun wasn't built as we would wish. If the dealer you bought it from can't remedy these issues we will. You can get an RMA# via the email above.
Point 6, Anodizing is the bane of our lives. So many issues with anodizers lately (why the release of many products is behind). Please send it back and we will swap it out.