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In keeping with the trend, I bought a shooter .270 fw on GB last week. Intact and complete with what looks to be a Weaver 4x with a post. Unusual to find a plastic buttplate with the hand checkering. The only real wart on it is the guys initials inscribed in the bolt handle. Which for a shooter, I can overlook, but I did think I'd probably have them removed somehow.

When I called to pay for it, I asked the shop in Colorado which listed it if they had any history on it. He laughed and said he did. The guy who brought it in to consign it is in his 90's and bought it new, and "shot alot of elk" with it but can't hunt any more and was hoping it would go to someone who would hunt it. Stops in multiple times a week he said. I told him to tell the guy it's going elk hunting in Montana this fall.

Rifle showed up yesterday and as it sits here, I think I'll leave the initials as they are.