In reply to GridNorth:
Just a little thing to take into account - make sure whichever head you get works well with the majority of the quickdraws you have in your arsenal. For instance, mine - a Beta - works really well with biggish wire gates but less so with smaller solid gates. Not really a problem for me as most of my qds have big krabs, but something to bear in mind nevertheless. For what it's worth I've had no problems with my Beta compact apart from sometimes the last red section doesn't lock that well - everythng else is fine. That's probably two years or more that I've had it and used it a lot.