I know what you mean...  sometimes, they really want to pull the wool over your eyes so they can get you to buy something that they have convinced you is worth it... until you get home and realize you were taken!  This Krag truly did look very good.  Incidentallly, of the three trapdoors, the worse looking one, which could have been cleaned up, re-blued and been very nice, has been sold for $500.  The other two, which both looked much better and priced over $1000 each, were still sitting there tonight (went back with my brother in law after dinner).