Bramble,

I think it is an America Vs Britain thing. Some rifles that are very reasonably priced in the UK are very expensive over here. A friend of mine sold a MacNaughton Bar in Wood shotgun in the UK to an American lady for what he thought was a superb profit and she came here and sold the same gun at an auction for something like five times what she had paid him for it. I had to think long and hard before telling my friend about the final selling price and giving him a link to the auction results and you can imagine how disappointed he was when he saw what the gun went for.

Just my 2c here.