About two years ago, I found the first one in a local shop, 45-70, and a good friend out west talked me out of it. Recently he sold it back to me so this will be the hog rifle for down south, [single shot, exposed hammer, primitive caliber], as per the Louisiana regs, and I'll just use the iron sights,-- but the one I just ordered is in 06 so I'll be putting a scope on it for the deer. As soon as I have the gun in hand and can measure the distance between the scope ring positions, that will help decide which bases will work the best. It also looks like I may have the same situation with the High Wall that is common to the number 1's, in that you have to get at least one offset ring to move the scope back far enough to use--seems to be a common problem with the single shot falling block design due to the very short action. The only complaint I saw on the Browning forum was that the trigger is sometimes a little rough and that adjustments on them are very difficult--I imagine I'll learn to use it just fine the way it is--I'll post some photos when I get them set up--thanks again for the good suggestions------