joshua,,,,call gary he is a good guy he's been doing guns for a long time and i have bought many rifles from him including a perfect 303 rigby that been seen here and that was in 1987 so he's been around ,,as far as it being perfect there are not many out there that are ,,the right gunsmith would bring it up to par no problem ,,besides it needs scope bases in those square bridges anyway thats what they were intended for ,,like you said you haven't seen many and you won't dsb solid walls are scarce if the right builder gets this action that will be the key to it being a 7k gun or a 25k gun ,,the problem is there are new actions on the market and to build from scratch a custom rifle i don't think in the long run it matters if it were an original dsb solid wall or not ,,it is worth a lot more as a complete original gun from mauser than what i think you could build ,,good news is if you were to ship the action overseas to dorleac or whomever it should be ok seeing it doesn't have a thumb cut which are not importable,,tho i could be wrong .....paul