Steve-

Beautiful rifle and congratulations on the hunt!
I'd seen a thread featuring that rifle elsewhere and wanted you to out it here for this community to see.
Quite a nice piece and I think you should develop a thread here on that particularly wonderful Snider.

Daryl-

Thanks for the comments and information.
As always I appreciate your perspective and experience.

Sporter-

Thanks for the kind words.
I too am enjoying this thread, and I'll be able to contribute more to it later in the week.
I'm slogging through six college courses and some hardware issues related to one of them (a C++ programming course) that seem to be related to Vista.
Today I'm buried to my chin in lab work and tests.
Hopefully I'll be able to share some targets by the week's end!

--Tinker