Aaah... okay, sorry. Was afraid he was judging everybody's rifles by the ones I buy.
FC, the reason the 1895 repro's are in good shape is because nobody I know of wants to hunt with a 308 with a crescent buttplate. And they were sold as a commemorative, which means folks bought them and thought the price would go through the roof. But, like a lot of the Winchester commemoratives, they didn't.
