500Nitro and Tinker,

When I had a chance this morning I went and looked at the pics again. On my computer here at home I get a liitle more detail. It kind of looks like ther are lines that would indicate a monoblock but they aren't straight so they could just be marks. Not sure.

500Nitro,

I figured the price was cheap for the same reasons you listed. However here 7.65x53 (assuming that it's this cartridge) are pretty easy to find dies and brass. Power wise it's in the between the 300 Savage and the 308 Win.

Bill