I fooled around and traded into a Teddy Roosevelt commemorative with a 26" octagon barrel, half mag. It has gold in the lettering, a TR coin in the right side of the pistol grip stock, nice light colored walnut with some figure to it. The best thing is it has had some honest use, the original owner had used it to deer hunt with sparingly. It has some ring dings on the forearm and stock, nothing thru the finish, some light impresssions. Blue is 95% on the barrel, lever and bolt, the reciever has some light border engraving, and is either finished in coin silver or a dull chrome. Great bore, and it probably has not had many rounds thru it, no brass marks on the usual places it will wear off inside and out. It is stiff, have to work it but it shoots fine and ejects a empty about 6 feet over my right shoulder. Even with the long barrel, which has a slight taper, it balances really good, holds well offhand, and when I shot some factory fodder thru it off a sandbag, 170 gr Federal, it put 4 rounds into 2"at 100yds. The longer barrel makes that front sight look tiny, helps in shooting good groups. I will be shooting some 170gr Lee bullets thru it shortly, maybe some 190 gr out of a Noe mold. Just thought I would share.
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