I just cannot fathom, a lot of things, but why

a Montana rancher truck gun for 20yrs before he sold it to me. They only made them from circa 1993-2003, they were too expensive to sell well. In 1993 they were $600 and nicest bolt action from same company was $300.

The best ones were made earlier and have stamped import marks, later ones had lased whitish import marks. There also was a cheaper later version marked as 611A which I would not recommend. The best ones were imported by Bavarian Arms out of CA and Magnum Research in MN.

Being highly desired and out of print, current prices are really high, and magazines are going for insane amounts, $300 for a 10rd and $150-$200 for 5rd, and buyer beware even on those as when production stopped, somebody else bought tooling and produced a knockoff of mags and guns, and neither as good as original.

A "good" price for one nowadays is under $800 for an obviously used one. Compared to how modern guns made and their prices, it still would be a bargain, they shoot 1-1.5MOA depending on ammo. They also take down like a Marlin 39A for cleaning/travel.

blowback works due to bolt mass, where what bolt you can see has two heavy rails extending forward, and those rails end in what best can be described as an upside-down mirror image of the bolt, the rails and that forward section hidden under the forend wood. The front section is counterbored and has a guide rod with spring around it which faces aft, and plugs into the front of receiver to power the bolt. That bolt is all one massive machined forging. It blew my mind 10yrs ago when I bought this thing, to see the hammer, trigger, sliding sear block (like a pump shotgun) and even magazine lock, were all machined forgings. If this is funky, I want more funky guns made. That rear barrel band/rear sight base is machined integral with the barrel.

stock a bit to fit Kase better and rebarreled it to 416 Rigby. Those are the only changes that gun has had. No other calibers. When we bought the original 602 from our distributor as far as I can remember didn't have a set trigger. We re-worked it for Africa and for hunting dangerous game a set trigger is as useful as tits on a chicken. We rebarreled it and did the work on it as Kase had ideas of hunting a Cape Buffalo with it. In the pic the top gun is the BRNO 602 in 416 Rigby and the bottom gun is the 458 American we built for Colleen for the same hunt. Kase took several large animals in Africa and Colleen has also done so including her big Cape Buffalo in the last year or two.