I observed a few when the shipment hit these shores few years ago. One could buy A&D HVA in very good shape for less than $400 instantly making it the best quality knockabout gun for the dollar spent beating old standby like Sakaba 100. Those HVAs are easily equal to Ithaca NID and the 350 action was used for calibers like 9,3x74 meaning the action is very, very strong. Real good samples have risen in price because they were undervalued when they first arrived here.