Yup, about 10yrs too early on the plastics technology bakelite, fiberglass, and poly carbonite materials used in handguards, butt stocks and also the rubberized butt plates were terribly short lived. And then some AH who thought he knew better than everyone else came up with SCHV which failed miserably. 1 in14/12 twist was horribly inaccurate and short ranged, took 20years to undo that wrong.