I hope you find it. I think I've told this story here, but I usually only read, rather than post. I was able to reunite an EG in .300 Savage to a family friend of mine. My dad had bought it from his dad for timber elk hunting back in the late 80s or early 90s. The father (my dad's friend) passed away and his son (my friend by default) inquired about it. I let him have it for a bottle of whiskey. Honestly didn't even care about the whiskey; I was just happy to get it back to an heir.
Fate smiled on me because when my brother found out I did that, he gifted me the Winchester 88 in .243 that our dad had passed down to him.
And then I found an EG in .308 that I rehabbed, and now all is right in the world.
Keep searching, you may come up with it--stranger things have happened.
