The barrel was cut to 25" and re-crowned, nicely done. A ramp front site was brazed on rather poorly, it leans to the left a little. The fore-end was cut in front of the lightening groove, nicely done. There's a crudely made barrel band that fits in the front handguard groove with a screw going through the bottom of the fore-end. The rear sling sling swivel groove was filled in with a small piece of birds-eye maple and about 1/2" of the butt was cut off (a little crooked) for a recoil pad which is hard and dried out. It looks like a skilled gunsmith did a few things to it and then Bubba got a hold of it  :'(. It does have a faint script proof and a faint J.S.A. cartouche with unreadable date possibly 1898 which was when this rifle was made.