TREASURES UNDER BUTTPLATES

[George Lander]

Have any of you here made it a practice of looking under the buttplates when you acquire a gun? A friend of mine did & told me that he found a five dollar bill! So I started looking under mine & so far I have found a 1921 hunting license from Pennsylvania (in an A Grade Fox) and a King George VI 10 pond note (in a W.W. Greener).

Inquiring Minds want To Know....George

[Brush Buster]

I started the practice years ago of removing Butt Plates ,I read about a fellow that removed a plate on a B Grade Fox and the large hole where the bolt goes through the stock into the back of the receiver to hold the stock on ,had a wad of $100.00 Bills rolled up and stuck in the hole ???? So far " NO LUCK !

[MarketHunter]

I've looked in every gun I ever owned and found nothing except some lead and some newspaper scraps.

[10 bore]

just dates and names under grip caps, still nice to find

[chris dawe]

I do it as well,and have found note's ,string ,fish hook's & a couple St.Christopher medal's.

[Dean Romig]

Odd that there should be St. Christopher medals and not St. Hubert medals...?

[ED J, MORGAN]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Odd that there should be St. Christopher medals and not St. Hubert medals...?

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL ?

[Dean Romig]

Agreed, but St. Hubert is the patron saint of hunters.

[winplumber]

I had a heck of a time getting into my DH the outside came off with the screws but the wood part I had to use a band saw. Didnt find anything . Does the wood just get glued back on ?

[ch]

Steve, Me and my friend worked over a 44 Stevens a smith long ago put a coil spring in it and had to lenghten the lower tang he put the serial # back on but under the butt plate he nailed the piece of the original lower tang with the serial # on it.