Don't give up on the M99, and the barrel being cocked is a 2 part issue, for one most likely you have a design flaw in the top rail, usually they are cocked to the left or right, making it difficult to sight the rifle it, after fixing that , you need to resecure the 2 outer barrel caps that hold the outer barrel to the rifle(under the top cover) From the factory they are loose a couple wraps of black electrical tape put the caps back on and no more "BENT" or "WARPED" barrel issues, I made a series of upgrade videos on this rifle dealing with almost everything I could find on it. If you upgrade
