[Jack]

My experience finding guns for other people hasn't been bad at all. Maybe because I tend to talk people out of buying a gun unless they are serious.
Quite a few years ago, a friend of mine took up deer hunting, using a borrowed sporterized 98 Mauser. When it came time for him to buy his own rifle, we went to a big gunshow in my area that drew a lot of people and was very crowded. I instructed him to bring cash and stay right behind me as we surveyed the whole show, moving quickly around the show. I went from booth to booth, looking down the gunracks for 98 Mauser cocking pieces. Once we'd identified the possible choices, we went back and studied them in detail.
Long story short, he got a Parker Hale Mauser sporter in 7x57 that probably has only 20-40 rounds fired through it. He's killed a lot of deer with that rifle.
We still laugh about whizzing through the crowd that day looking for rifles.