Don't know if it's been mentioned, but the late Francis E. Sell, author of "The Deer Hunters's Guide", had an awesome little full-stock carbine built on a 6.5 Swede, I believe. It wore a detachable scope and peep. In the book, there's a picture of Sell using the Indian Carry, with his hand around the grip and the forend cradled in the crook of his elbow. That, to me personified the woods gun. The funny thing is that Sell was mainly a blacktail hunter, but I guess the two species have very similar habitat over much of their range.
One of the last pieces Sell wrote was on a project to build a lever gun based on a Marlin and chambered in .25/35 or .25/35 Improved, kind of an "Old Man's Deer Rifle". I might be ready for something like that myself, come to think of it.
