backtobethel, never said what the scope was beyond Leupold. With the med high rings and length I'm thinking it is a M8 6x36? The rear sight was put on backwards simply to keep it with the rifle, helluva lot better than an empty dovetail in my opinion. It looked like it might have cleared the scope but certainly not with the scope caps used. Looks like an honest gun to me, back then a lot of guys, ex military put military style slings on their rifles because they were taught to shoot with them. They also had the mindset that a gun was a tool and used as such, not going to any great pains to spare the stupid marks on them. With a 24" barrel that 270 should produce the kinda ballistics that built the 270's rep. $1000? looks to me like it will be well spent. That's an example of value in excess of the norm for greenbacks today. Goodluck. Magnum Man
