I have a guest, a young competitive shooter from India whom I shall be taking on a tour of the gun shops in the Chicagoland area on Saturday. I'll ask around the bigger chains - Gander Mountain, Dick's and Bass Pro and smaller shops like Barry Levin's Des Plaines shop and Shore Galleries which is a quarter mile away from my place - someone should know something. Let's see what they have to say.

In case someone else is able to check before I can, please do post here. Baikal/Remington should be glad that there is probably more interest in these guns than there is in any other new launch in a long time. Now, if only they would start selling them while people are still interested...

Cheers!