gasgunner,

Your newly acquired Hutton is a beauty. I like everything about it ... including the checking. The little details, i.e. the front sight ramp, are very nice. You should be tickled as heck to have made it yours. As to the checkering, you know there was a gent named Fred Adolf that did a lot of different things and gained great notoriety. BTW, and not that it would matter, what is the cartridge of choice for this little gem?

Mark