I had several of those 788 rifles. About six I think. I had two left hand models in 308 and 6mm Remington. The only down side of them was that the bolt handle is just soldered in and I had a couple come off on me. They sold new for just over 100 dollars at discount stores but 250 is a fair price nowadays. The thing with the 222 is that it may have some collector value down the road. They were not as common as other calibers. Other calibers that may hold some collector values are the 30-30 and 44 mag of which they didn' t make to many. Where I used to live the 222 was a legal deer round but should only be used in that area buy expert marksmen who can make a head or neck shot evey time.