Got a new 6.5x55

[Rapier]

It is like potato chips, once you start you just can not stop. I have been looking for a 6.5x55 Rem 700 Classic for several years now. Every time I find one it is in the drug behind a PU condition or new in the box. So at Tulsa a guy walks up to the end of my table where my back is to him, and one of our group, sitting next to me facing the other direction, asks the one with the gun, what you got there and the the guy pops up with "a 6.5x55" at which point I start to turn around, as I hear "what do you want for it," just as I see it is a Classic in about 98% condition. So, yeah, long story short, I get stuck with trading the table buddy a 35 Whelen Classic plus $100 for the 6.5 gun. But I bought the Whelen at a really good price and so I now have another 6.5x55 but it is my long sought for Classic 700 in 98% condition with a blue muzzle even. But it is hard for a buddy to do you like that, as he laughed through the entire deal, since he has known for three plus years I wanted a 6.5x55. The tables will turn though, hum, oh I guess we are about even, I bought the 32 inch 20ga Browning 525 he was quivering over and kept it, then shot his pants off with it in two tournaments. It was worth a Ben just to do him like that Lol, lol.

The new book shows the Classics to be worth about $750 with the 6.5x55 at a 25% premium by the way, so my giving him a Ben with the 35 was actually a buy, or so goes the stories amongst the GST.

Part of going to a show with a group, there are stories to be told with witnesses.
Ed