A Dakota model 10. 7x57. $1400, I walked in w/ half of that. LGS owner was a friend of a friend, would have taken payments. I had young kids at home- couldn’t pull it off. Instead he sold me a model 70 Classic Featherweight, 270, w/ a Leupold 2x7. Still have it as my primary rifle.

Most of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout steams and above the hills
The high blue windless skies
Now he will be part of them, forever
- Earnest Hemingway, Idaho- 1939