Glad to hear the 250 got to come home, and glad you and your uncle were close enough that he knew you would like it. I bought a Texas truck gun in 250 a couple years ago. The way I look at it is, if I reblue it and clean the stock up a little, all the stories are gone. No one would be able to tell that it hung in the rear window of an old truck, stock bleached out a little on the sunny side. Plus it you plan to hunt it, you want one that's used to bad weather. If you get it all shiny, the first drop of water that hits it might make it flinch. I like family guns with character too.
