The one I saw was a tapered barrel stout sporting rifle contour, not a heavy varmint contour barrel, but stout, that was octagon at the breech and round to the muzzle and it really stuck with me. IIRC, it was a 170 Landis Woodsman and had a Jr Targetspot scope. The guy had a half dozen of those old rifles with him, some single shots and a couple Mausers. I never got his contact info or ran into him again.
They all were really nice rifles and meeting him was like living out what I had been reading in my CS Landis books. That one rifle stuck with me.
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