'97 and the Remington both look great.
The '97 is probably dangerous by 'modern standards', but then,,what isn't.
Handy bbl length as is and a cyl bore will do most anything you need the gun to do.
I use a 26" cyl 1897 cut down from a 30" mod bbl that was badly bent.
They sure use a bucket full of parts to make them work!
Rust bluing something other than a set of SxS bbls is a lot more work. Lots of additional time handling all those extra parts to blue.
Many times I'll quick rust blue the small parts in one lot if I'm slow rust bluing the bbl & receiver,ect.
Goes a bit easier that way.
