Sounds like you guys down there in NZ have very reasonable prices on the Mauser's. A model b in 8x60 with the original scope for 2500 nz sounds very good to me. I agree with you 500Nitro that we seem to lack a preponderance of highly skilled and knowledgable gunsmiths in the U.S. Unfortunately my first experience with a "gunsmith" in the U.S. was a bad one when I was 15. I have done all my own work ever since.