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That is outstanding!

Ed, that one is certainly slobber worthy! Excuse me while I clean off my keyboard.

30 years ago, there was a place called Edelman's on Long Island, NY. I used to stop in whenever I had a job in the area.
One day they had just gotten the shipment of model 96's in. they let me go in the back and pick the ones I wanted, I brought six of them home. They were $79 each.

Over the years I gave one to a friend, sold three others, and still have one in original configuration.

In the "I wish that I known then what I know now" dept.... I took one of the six and attempted to sporterize it it myself. It was a original Obendorf marked 1896, all matching numbers, in 99% condition... It ended up looking like one of those guns from planet of the apes, I still have it, the metal's good but the wood is screwed. It actually it just needs the bolt bent and drill and tap for scope mounts.

I bought a few others over the years, including some barrel actions and one of the ones that Kimber sporterized in the 1990s. It's a great shooter, this is Remington factory ammo.

I recently acquired a Carl Gustafs 94/14 that had been semi sporterized. This one has a lyman 57 receiver sight mounted, and it is a ton of fun to shoot, and quite accurate.
I feel like whoever slimmed the stock, and did the inlays really liked rifles. At some point it had been impacted somehow, and the Lyman 57 was badly bent, but I dropped it off with a 'smith and it's now straight and functional
Haven't actually had it at the range yet, but just shooting over the hood of the truck at ~40 yards I put three into under a half inch with some PPU factory 140s

I paid nearly double what Sam mentioned above, and feel like I stole this. It's absolutely going to be passed on to family, as they are already jonesing for it.