ODS, I bought a 1953 Win 70 30-06 in July for $700 + tax.
I took off the Redfield peep and put on a scope, a stock, and a 25-06 barrel... and shot a mule buck in October.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps