ORIGINAL: Briman
For a rifle like that, I'd keep an eye out in newspaper classifieds. ...
... Go to gunshows if you are looking for overpriced hunting rifles that the owner 'improved' by poorly refinishing the stocks with tru-oil, or if you are looking to buy beef jerky, or if you are looking to buy home made jewelry, or if you are looking to buy neo-nazi books and t-shirts, or if you are looking to buy the latest incarnation of Ginsu knives, or if you are looking to buy cheap poorly made holsters, or if you are looking to buy.... well you get the point.
I've been watching the want ads too and will continue if there's nothing worth while at the gun shop. I'm a life long want ad shopper.My starting point is always thatused stuff, even if perfect, is worth 1/2 the best local price for new. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but that's my starting point until I know better.
I've never gone to a gun show, so will go just to see how it is, but understand your precautions and they don't surprise me from what I've heard.
Hey, I've always wanted to find a copy of the Turner Diaries! (after reading the book on Tim McVeigh - any more of my opinions on him and his psychopathicbuddies - we'll have to move to politics).