I have been looking at these little rifle for a fairly long time. The short barrel turns me off, but I decided if the price dropped enough I would purchase one. my thinking was that since they were not selling I could get a bargain on one.. well today I found one on line new at a Cabelas store for $629.66. I think the action is probably worth that much as the action is a Winchester made in japan and is of high quality. anyway I will be picking up a new rifle in 38-55 in the next day or so. I probably will someday put a 30 inch barrel on it. it was the only I found at that price but they flat are not selling and I think by keeping an eye on them a nice rifle or even the action for a project can be had for a bargain price. argie1891

after reading my post again I noticed that my English and spelling looks like a grade school kid wrote it.

It seems to have the long tang. the site I am putting here isn't where I bough mine but it shows several pictures of the rifle. you can see the tang is long for adding a tang sight or whatever. there is another listed for the $629.00  listed at guns international a cabales in the mid west has it listed. I don't know where an action could be purchased for less money even paying the 800 bucks the action would be a fairly good by my thinking
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that is one UGGGGGGGLY rifle .   looks like a NA "blanket gun" or a "canoe-gun"

I'm sorry, I was a bit impulsively harsh in my reaction to that rifle .   why they chose to create that as a replica is beyond me. 
I have an early pre-BPCR miroku-wall in 45-70 and would love to have one of the miroku lo-walls on 260 rem.   I think buying it at a discounted price as a "buildable action" would be its highest and best value in my opinion.
I'm afraid I wouldn't even want an original in that sawed-off looking rendition---rare and valuable though they may be---as anything other than for profitable resale,

ok guys I stated I was going to use the action to build a good looking rifle. yes they are not the best looking rifle. the only purpose I can see for them is maybe a single shot saddle gun.... there are  a lot of better choices for that. I kinda wished I hadn't posted in the first place. I will try in the future to only post items that you approve of. you could give me a list and that would make it easier for me. I really don't want to force anyone to read about an ugly rifle.

all I need now is to find a few bucks to begin the project. in the last year I have bought a martini cadet in 218 mashburn bee, a Stevens 44 in 32-40 a ubirti low wall in 32-20 and a husky single shot bolt action in 32-20.  just over a year ago I bought a cpa in 32-40. now the Winchester trapper. it is going to be a while before I can start on this project. you might say I have gotten an interest in single shot rifles. the cpa is a work of art I am finally finding out what it likes and getting groups of 3/4 inch. working on making them even smaller. I have had to sell several rifles to allow me to purchase these single shot and am going to sell a few more. didn't have a clue how much fun I could have from a single shot rifle.   
what I posted earlier was intended to be simulated humor. poking a bit of fun at the guys.  simulated humor is not real humor but close to it.

recently my local Cabelas had about six of those trapper 1885s I wonder if they stumbled on a stash. At teh time they were looking to get over $1,000 so I walked. Maybe I need to revisit them.