OK, so, I bought the gun for 500 BPS; only bid. It was about $1000 all in without shipping. I figured at worst I had a cheap enough wall hanger/sometimes skeet gun/flushing bird gun. At best, it might be near custom sporting clays gun.

I hooked up with Toby Barclay to start the ball rolling. Toby agreed that it was a mid-grade BLE; robust and reliable. Surprises were minimul and on the good side. For $3500 I could have the action stripped cleaned and set right, the stock cleaned up and polished, and high quality invisibly sleeved 32" barrels (ribs welded up for extension). That made it around the same cost as the gun would have valued with original barrels. Should I have it sleeved?

DDA