I'm retired now. Since I have diabetes, I don't hunt in the cold anymore (get cold feet on a deer stand). I built this rifle for deer hunting. So I'm selling a few rifles, getting down to a basic battery.
Jeff -- Ngrumba -- turned me onto Mark Penrod several years ago. I've had Mark perform work as basic as a trigger job all the way up to building a complete custom rifle and have never been disappointed. You can do worse, but you won't do better than this rig and it's a lot less than having a new .257 built and it's ready to go NOW, vice a several month (or year) wait.