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Finally picked up the rifle, had a sunny day and batteries in my camera.
Does anyone know why soft metal (lead) would be hammered into the stock like this?
Doesn't look like it goes through and through except the one spot in the tang. Only reason I can figure out is a repair of some kind, though I've never heard of lead being pounded into wood that way (for a repair - or anything else)...
An interesting rifle. You should have fun getting to know it and working out little mysteries of it's past, such as the the use of lead as a hole filler in the stock.
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Yep tha's covering the nail that holds the stock together. Fixed many like that, Acraglas in new wood where the old is missing and degrease and fill the crack at the tang. No big deal and the stock will last for another hundred years. Nice rifle!
Thanks all for your comments.
I am going to keep this rifle the way it is, cuz it earned all the dents and dings.
May shoot cast bullets with it once I get the small missing parts replaced.
I was just wondering why your gun has a shotgun type butstock and not a cresent shaped one? I have a 1895 in 35win. and the cresent butstock is not pleasant to shoot.
Hecter wrote:I was just wondering why your gun has a shotgun type butstock and not a cresent shaped one? I have a 1895 in 35win. and the cresent butstock is not pleasant to shoot.
The 30-03 which he has there, the 30-06, the 405 and 35 came standard in later years with the shotgun style buttplate...in other words...If it had a 24" barrel as std. it got a shotgun butt. All others came standard with a crescent. IIRC Madis says that the early production 405 and 35 were to be equipped as crescent, but likely because of recoil considerations this was changed. This is verified by production notes.
Barrel Markings, .30 US 1903, stock damage
Upper Tang Marking
Showing carrier screw damage
Soft metal (lead?) left side of stock
Same, right side of stock
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