^^ Race you to it! I just sent the seller a note to secure it.
It will join a full stock G33-40 lightweight Mauser carbine in (get this) .338 Win Mag (!!) with ghost ring rear sight as well as a claw mount scope, and a custom built Krag .33-40 carbine in a full length stock that I had built up about twenty years ago for Pennsylvania whitetail hunting.
That Mauser is an absolute beauty. $795? That's a steal.
I feel a rant coming on.... trying to suppress it... don't DO it Willie... Ack!! TOO LATE!!
<Begin Willies Rant-Mode Here>
Can you *imagine* buying a new
Portuguese Winchester, or a
Japanese Browing, or (gack..) an
investment cast Ruger with the insulting
"Warning, this is a dangerous rifle, idiots should write the factory for an instruction manual" engraved on the side and thinking you have a "Classic" when finely crafted, hand-built *beautiful* rifles like it are available for the cost of hunting them down?
And there are *thousands* of similar rifles sitting on shelves due to the American tradition of thinking that the best things come new in a cardboard box. Fom Walmart.
The lack of sophistication of the majority of American rifle buyers is absolutely unbelievable. It never fails to amaze me. If it were me running things, reading both Jim Carmichael's "Book of the Rifle" and Steven Bodio's book "Good Guns" for comprehension would be a reguirement before being permitted to buy a bolt action rifle and calling it a classic...
<Exit Willies Rant-Mode Here>
There. I feel better now.
This humor-break has been brought to you as a public service announcement by "Willie's 4-B Campaign for Bringing Better Bangsticks to Bubba".
Seriously:
Suggestion to the OP: Buy and read both of the above before you buy a rifle. It'll be an enormous education. Truly. You'll know more than 99% of the populace about rifles, and will be making better choices. The difference between a guy with a GOOD rifle and one with an adequate cookie-cutter one is knowlage. All that takes is some study. Start with the above two books and you'll be off and running.
Willie
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