Gosh, that's a pretty "tiger stripe" in that wood. I'd pull that stock off and see if there was not a "3" stamped on it somewhere cause it looks to me like you might have gotten a higher grade of wood on that gun. It's happened before. Very nice rifle.
...the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America..."
- Hubert H. Humphrey, "Gun" magazine, Feb. '60