I was just in the Academy in Austin last weekend looking at these and talking to the manager for quite a while about them -- they had about 10 270's and the manager was telling me how they don't normally carry them and they just got them in for Black Friday, but I should check the ads because they'd probably be running a sale on them pretty soon to get rid of the rest that hadn't sold yet. I checked the ad on Sunday, no dice, left for Wisconsin for a few weeks on Wednesday, and now they go on sale No academy's up here! I don't feel as bad because I just bought a new savage today, but that is a heck of a deal! The gun was also different than the others I'd seen, had a very nice recoil pad, very much like the ones that PAD that savage had. Also they were brown not grey. Too bad, could have had a long action... but probably for the best after all.