Actually I was following that auction with intent to buy. He bought it from zefarm about a year ago & from what i could see in the pics it was an original sniper with the repro crap put on an original scope base. The bolt was sniper & seemed to have "patina" around the base where it joined the body so I don't think it was recent. maybe it came into the country sans scope. Either way, I would have spent $500 to find out.