Yep me again, drug out yet another old lever gun in my revisit to old style levers. This old girl has been thru the ringer and survived to be adopted by yours truly for a chapter in her long and illustrious life.
My addition to the old girl was to take the sewer pipe barrel interior and have it relined for a 380 barrel with the twist just as it was when factory new. Changing nothing except for the rifling ... now visible and useful. Instead of the old cruddy bp fouled and rusted bore. Everything else stays the same ... including a historically correct wrist repair [ which I will cherish and not ever change unless it becomes unstable and thusly unuseable]. Everything else including the dings and rub marks remain and will for the term it lives with me.
There she is. One of my fav rifles. Butter smooth and easy shooter with its 26 inch barrel.
MISTAKE IN YEAR, 1897 YEAR MANUFACTURE