TREASURES UNDER BUTTPLATES

George Lander · 05-19-2011, 11:49 PM

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 · 05-20-2011, 12:59 AM

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 · 05-20-2011, 05:56 AM

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

10 bore · 05-20-2011, 06:29 AM

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

chris dawe · 05-20-2011, 06:33 AM

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

Dean Romig · 05-20-2011, 06:49 AM

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

ED J, MORGAN · 05-20-2011, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig

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

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL ?

Dean Romig · 05-20-2011, 07:39 AM

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

winplumber · 05-20-2011, 08:04 AM

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 · 05-20-2011, 08:22 AM

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.