All right, I confess. I would rather mention my wifes weight after I had a few minutes to rub my eyes with barbed wire. Happy now.
If that was a Fox it would be about a B/C grade, Lefever a late style E grade. Point is that the winner might end up putting several thousand dollars or several hundred hours into a gun of mid level value at the best of times. Farm all the work out and you could easily end up with $4,000 or 5,000 dollars in the gun before you are done. Maybe much more than that if the barrels are a problem.
Now at 200 plus dollars it is getting into decent money for a project gun with major problems. What ever you do you will have a gun with a new forend with no matching wood and/or metal to the original gun. On top of that this is the potential money pit that we are often warned about avoiding. The best project guns you might get a dollar out for each dollar invested. This one will return maybe fifty cents on the dollar if you are lucky.
