It's easy to spend more than the rifle is worth as a whole if too many things are wrong with the rifle. I got into that with my old 60. I bought an action, which it turned out I didn't need, and a stock and I was just under the price the rifle could bring. That's ok though. I'll have that backup action for a long while. And I'll be able to keep my old 60 going for a long time too. The original action has 24 years on it and it's still going strong. The stock had a problem created by my kids long ago when they put a big gash in it. So in all fairness the rifle required no repairs as a result of it wearing out. Still if something did happen to the stock (I can't really imagine what that might be) and there was a legit problem with the action it could end up eating up a good bit of cash. But not likely enough to make it more expensive to fix than buying a new one would cost.
