Thanks OH...
I know very little about shotguns - never owned one (or a .22 in fact). Rifles, sidearms are more my interest.
But 2 stories on CMP Forum Boards last few years, where an individual was re-united with service rifle (both M1 Garands, 50+ years later), have given hope - especially considering low(er) profile nature of that hardware.
I'm guessing Gramp's hardware is of greater 'profile'; even if the owner(s) are not, the likelihood is higher of recovery (or even a pic) of one or more of these pieces.
Yeah - a haystack indeed. But there's 11 needles, and the web makes these BIG needles even bigger
