Hello All,
Thanks for the reply.

Have you heard the saying "butter side down" ... it refers to when you drop a piece of buttered bread, it always seems to land "butter side down". Well this purchase is "butter side down".

Its an 8x57I. What colossal waste of time and money. Here are pictures of all the markings. I can understand that an auction house doesn't do a chamber cast, but a simple $1 gauge would have saved a lot of time and disappointment. And to top it off, I'm out another $500 because I went and bought a set of 11.2x72 loading dies, and 100 pcs of 11.2x72 brass for this rifle. So .... anyone got an 11.2x72 for sale?