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That's a beauty! Worth every penny too. Mine was the successor to that one. The 144LS had a straight bolt handle, Lyman sights, and an adjustable fore end stop. The stock was American walnut. The Mossberg line of my day was largely overlooked by 3-position small bore competitors, but with a total cost of around $50 I could hold my own in rifle matches with nationally ranked teams. No, hooked butt plates, diopters, or fancy gew-gaws or doo-dads. It was simply a finely made rifle with iron peep sights. You became a marksman by learning its strengths and weakness; becoming intimately familiar with its trigger pull; learned to time the shot between heart beats. That rifle could group ten rounds into an area the size of shirt button. I sold it for $75. Yes it still hurts whenever I think about that.