Al,
I understand that there are no set "rules" when it comes to Maynards.....
Your wonderful,
new .40-60 has the "round full length barrel", "checkered stock of fancy branch walnut" with wide shotgun butt, and the extra tall patent rack-and-pinion rear vernier sight - all common to the #14 Creedmoor Rifle...which was
normally chambered for the .44-100. The Maynard Mid-Range #13 was chambered in either .40-60 or -70....but the ones I've examined usually had much plainer walnut, the
standard buttplate, and the barrels were of lighter weight w/some octagon at the breech end. I wonder what Maynard model # your rifle left the factory as..... a special order #13 or #14 with an additional mid-range barrel?
Is that full-round barrel stamped with a rifling twist # underneath and just behind the hook? The heavy 32" full-round .40-70 barrel on my Maynard #9 (or #10?) Hunting rifle is stamped "25". just curious about yours for comparison....
Again....that's a wonderful rifle!
Added:
That long-staff Maynard patent rack-and-pinion sight has GOT to be
incredibly scarce. I've seen a bunch of the standard ones.....but only a few of the long ones!