The first high power rifle I bought as a kid was an old Eddystone 17,and it was a good shooting gun,.It was scoped with a old 3x9x40 Simmons scope on see thru mounts,and had real nice Marbles sights.It still had the military stock ,but it had been reworked to have a more sporting look..I gave $150 for it,and about 2,and a1/2 boxes of shells in around about 1990,or 91...A friend of mine bought one of those 7.7 Japs for $75 bucks I'm thinking,but at the time the only shells he could get were Norma,at a then astronomical price ,I'm thinking of around $25,or $30 dollars.