I tend to agree with the nay sayers here. I originally posted my question about my Marlin 39A, Winchester 9422 XTR and Henry Yellow Boy .22's because IMO none of them met our standards. Both the Marlin and Winchester have ramp front sights and the Marlin has white line spacers in the grip cap and butt plate. Neither of these IMO look very pre 1900. While the Henry does at least look period, it never exiisted in our time period. So I planned on not bringing any of them as they were outside the scope of our endeavor.
LG, I appreciate your clarification of where in the Tally Book one can find the various language that addresses this issue. Based on the actions and comments discussed and presented here, it would appear that there might be a need for the NCOWS position on .22's both sidematch and main match to be easier to find in the Tally Book.
See y'all at the National!
Cole