The wood was very lightly sanded at some point with a lightly hued oil finish added. Malcolm, Syracuse, N.Y.” The walnut forend is held by three barrel bands and is in very good condition with numerous small handling marks and small blemishes along its length, as well as heavy wear to the wood surrounding the screw bolster on the underside. The top of the scope tube has a small maker's plaque mounted towards the ocular eyepiece: “Wm. The optics are slightly cloudy, but still perfectly serviceable, and the fine crosshair reticle, with four horizontal stadia for different ranges, is intact and in excellent condition. The rifle is equipped with a Malcolm telescopic sight that measures 33 1/8″ in length with a tube diameter of 3/4″. The action itself is tight and the trigger mechanism is fully functional with a crisp, light let off when set. Indeed, this may have been the reason for the modification. The barrel is original, numbered to the gun under the forend, and was trimmed by 1″ at the muzzle which removed the bayonet lug and front sight. This double set trigger equipped rifle has an overall smooth, plum-brown patina with gray speckling evenly distributed around the receiver. 52 caliber, 29″ barrel with a fine, bright bore having some very mild freckling within the grooves towards the breech.
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