I just bought a stock RIX and would love to know how to field strip it. I am a complete newby, as well, and would like to better understand what are the suggested mods (if any). I have spent hours reading and re-reading these posts and I am not exactly sure what I need to do to my RIX if all I am going to do is fill Alum80s a couple times a week.That would be awesome...any chance you could release your manual withal the top secret parts redacted to go with it? Might be asking too much!