There’s been plenty but I got second chance at one. My buddy was looking for pre safety JM Marlin 444 and asked me keep an eye out because I’m on the road all day , I found one in shop an hour or so from home that was a 1980 looked like new and never even had scope mounted on it. I called him and it was a little more then he wanted to spend so I left. Somehow on the way home I convinced myself I wanted that rifle. The next day I drove all the way back and it was gone! Now fast forward a couple months and I walk in and it’s back on the rack so I’m thinking something is up and asked the owner, he said every year for Christmas he gives all the employees $500 towards any gun in the store and the gun smith that has been there 40 years picked the 444 and was paying off the balance so he could take it home when that morning another gun came in he had been after forever so he put the 444 back and I happen to walk in about 10 minutes after it hit the rack , it went home with me this time .
