I traded my first car, a 1983 buick riviera with no reverse and got about 11 miles to the gallon for a model 70 25-06 that was beat all to heck. I have since taken off the bushnell scope and replaced it with a leupold, and refinished the stock and cold blued the barrel. It looks better than new to me and shoots very tiny groups. I have shot it the least of all my others though because of the rare round. Just got into reloading so she came back out to play last week.