Devious6: Thank you, Sir! The comment about the limited collectability of these is made in the Lapin book but glad to hear your thoughts. It's kind of nice to still see fairly low prices on Mosins (including sniper variants) given how crazy things are getting in the world of Springfields, Lee Enfields, Garands, etc. It's also nice to buy something with minimal expectations and to be very pleasantly surprised by solid quality and functionality. I'm registered in the "Ross Rifle Shoot" here in July and may just use this rifle instead of one of my No. 4T's in the scoped class.

Ridolpho