Come on guys, lighten up, be nice to my homeboy. He and his dad are proud of their rifle, and the effort expended over the years to keep it nice. Before I could PM, he received an honest recommendation to bring the rifle here for evaluation while posting on a local forum that does not allow threadcrapping. While I must admit that he was guaranteed to get honest evaluations here, it was not exactly what he expected. He is not a flipper, or Larry Root in new guise. A lot of non-collecting folks like these rifles.