Tang cracks never get any better.

You might want to buy it just for the Lyman if it a 29 1/2, 30 1/2 or 56 or 57 and ditch the gun. I've bough rifles before just to get the sight or scope off them.

If you just want to hunt it and don't care if it glued and screwed no prob. If you want to shoot it more than 5 times a year, I'd pass

Just me.



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