I am very appeciative of all the responses this thread has garnished! .......and I thank everyone.

I am going to be 50 years old next year and have been drooling on Winchesters since I was about 35 and had enough spare change to buy one occasionally. I work a lot so I am always dreaming about one day when I will be able to just take off and go hunting for weeks or longer.

In the mean time I'm just going to let this thread go, and maybe I will shoot it on my 50th birthday just to get it out of my system.

By the way, this is the only big bore rifle I own and I have never shot anything bigger than a 38-55 rifle.