Quote Originally Posted by breakeyp View Post
This scope has picket post and cross hair recticule, not duplex and has 7/8 inch tube diameter, 2.5x (same as Lyman Alaskan). 1990 vintage I am sure would be 1 inch dia. tube.

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The trigger work seems pretty involved/expensive for something run up for possible civilian sales, or made by bubba. I note Skennertonicon's sketch of a unique trigger sketch set up by LB.

I expect the buttplate was an example of a cast steel design that was obtained before it could run down the line and have the butt trap holes added. I get the impression that most of this stuff was in an Engineer's drawer for show and tell in the office (guilty as sin there and glad I didn't have engine blocks at my desk!).
The 7/8" Leupold Alaskan was marketed as a "modern take" of a Lyman Alaskan which had modern sealing and purging to replace that old junker scope...

Looking at your pictures and reading your description, I lean towards an experimental action from the model shop, lunchboxed out the door as Warren's hunting project....

I think that the Brit barrel and wood tends to reinforce that idea...