I appreciate all your suggestions about what to do with it if I am able to acquire it. Trust me when I say I have thought of all these options and then some.

If I was able to acquire it then there is the balancing act of restoration to some level vs unlimited funds spent. At this point Im really just trying to get the gun. If Im able to do that, then the next steps would have to be decided. I am likely to, somehow, get proper length barrels back onto the gun. Whether that is by sleeving, donor barrels or brand new tubes I dont know and the decision is a long way off.

I would first get the action working properly. Then I would address the missing wood from the stock. What happens after that, only time will tell.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia