Gotta say, if the Spartan wasn't such a hideous styling excercise I'd be one of the guys setting deposits down at the local remington shop.
The gun is just ugly.
Doesn't need to be either.

I've thought of buying one to take apart and completely re-countour everything, replace what doesn't have enough metal to get ground, filed, and welded into a more pleasant shape, and hack the hell out of the wood to get it to resemble more of a gunstock than a canoe paddle.
Six hundred bucks still kind of sounds high for that much of a project lump to start with.

I bet we'll see someone doing that soon as they hit the gunshop racks...

--Tinker