CJF: Completely understandable! I own two DAKOTA 76's myself, one a 1986 vintage 30/06 fully loaded with extras that I even steven traded DON ALLEN for who I knew personally, a cased Parker I picked up in Florida FOR A DARN GOOD PRICE. Also a 2nd one, 1993 vintage .280 REM. standard configuration with xxxx wood and a straddle-in the bow, floorplate release but topped with a Leupold LPS 4.5-14 $1200 SCOPE. It had been hunted once by an insurance executive who only "wanted the best" but decided he didn't like sitting in the cold, waiting foe something to show up! He decided he NEEDED a Corvette and told me he had the rifle, scope with 6 boxes of Federal Premium Ammo, a Boyt SLING AND CASE, all of which he had paid $4875 and "he had to have $2000 out of it!". I looked offended but told him I understood his "need for speed" and wrote him a check for the outrageous amount he was asking! He walked off chuckling at the country bumpking I was. When I looked in the gun case later, I found out he forgot to mention, a receipt that showed he paid a top gunsmith in Atlanta to do a further tuneup of the trigger and sight it in for him, for another $250. I went to the range and noticed 6 cartridges missing from one of the ammo boxes and thought "WON'T BE SIGHTED IN VERY GOOD" First 3 shots from a clean barrel at 100 yds. went in .453 ins., the next 3 .389. The moral of the story CAVEAT EMPTOR ...LET THE BUYER BEWARE...BUT NOT AT RETAIL! Jerry
