Mike;
A thing or so struck me as odd on this gun. Even though on slow as molasses dial-up I went back to your original post & pulled up the photo-bucket pics. I feel certain what you have here is a conversion to the large cocking hook action. Lefever offered this service for older style guns. Note the check hook pin across the bar has been cut out in the center, hook now serves as check. Also note even though there is a screw showing in forend iron just ahead of knuckle & a slot cut in rear of thr iron tang, there is no extractor cam in the forend. Also the extractor leg comes all the way through the bbl lug which shows it was originally intended to be "Pushed" by the forend cam. Whether it simply stayed in stock & was changed prior to being sold or was returned by owner to be up-graded cannot likely be told. It would appear though this gun originally was, or was intended to be, a 2-hook cocking gun.
