School me on the Mountie

[finca]

Newbie here.

Can someone school me on the reason for the grip style on the Mountie?

I don't recall having fired a weapon with a straight "grip" like the Mountie.  I see that it is the same style as the 1894. 

Is this more about aesthetics than function?

Thanks

[swany]

Don't rightly know but they sold well, just my opine but at the time Winchester did not have a .22 that looked like the model 94 or 92 that made the west famous.  That sold a lot of them.

I like straight grip and have converted many pistol gripped guns to straight including the 39A, 336 and pretty soon a 336A.