Anyway you cut it, I would love that rifle if it were mine. And I would hug it, and pet it, and I would name him George. (Points to whom can name where I stole that from!)
Okay, I'll play.....Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny and the Abominable snowman. I'm not much into '99 minutiae, but that's a cool old rifle I would treasure..
Winner! That 'toon was actually loosely based on Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
As noted in my first post, I thought that's what the gun is, but didn't want to state it categorically.