The animal on the pierced top lever is a fox. I was told that by Gabriele Sabatti himself while I ate lunch with him at the EXA 2010 show in Toronto last week. The Sabatti does not have a third bite. It does have disc-set strikers. All barrels are hammer-forged chrome-moly steel. The actions are machined out of a forging of best-quality modern steel. The actions on the two guns that I handled last week, one a .45-70 and the other a .470 NE, closed up like a bank vault. Fit and finish is absolutely remarkable for a gun in this price range!