OK gentlemen brace yourselves. I got the aftormentioned rifle. The bore appeared to be clean but when I swabbed her today I found out it had just some surface rust. Nothing to worry about. I few oil patches, a little work with JB and some more oil and dry patches and she is as good as new.
Now you can see the brass needs to be buffed up a bit but otherwise the rifle is in like new condition. Even has the old iron sights - not them new fangled fiber optic ones. The brass scope was still in the box in the plastic bag, unopened. It's a Tasco replica. I was hoping for a Malcolm but I can't complain.
I got everyting in the pic plus a couple packs of patches, a pack of flints and a box of balls. Everything came to a whopping total of - now I hated to do this without kissing him - but all for $80.