Well perhaps I am getting the credit card date confused with the order date - either way, I ordered the day after the shipment was first rumored here on the site. It was so long ago I've switched laptops since then and don;t even have that sent messages folder anymore!
As for ordering anything right now, that's a big no-go. I'm leaving the country for 2 weeks starting tomorrow night
And as for an EE ad, well, I'm not willing to take a raping to get a gun I should have been fondling already at a much fairer price.
grumble-grumble.
To give you guys a taste of what has me upset, would anyone here knowingly pay a steep hand select fee for a rifle with these features?
I know I would not and this is why
I do believe the dealer when they say I was likely sent the wrong rifle by accident. Especially when I was verbally told over the phone they would send me a "non-refurb, though we cannot guarantee unissued".
Note the rust-brown chamber (the piston hole brown is grease, but the chamber is surface rusted):
And here we see where someone scratched this rusty scab with a screwdriver or something, probably when the mag was out for welding, gave up, and re-assembled the rifle - rusty mag and all:
Here's my favorite where someone (recently by the looks of it) took a hand file to some rust on the mag body and still thought it a good idea to grade the gun "hand select"
And the buttplate isn't much better... that pitting is DEEP.
And here we see how the stock was soo sanded that they didn't X out the old serial number, they just crudely stamped over it...
