Lefever C at LGS

[Richard Flanders]

The crack(s) in that part of the stock are interesting. I was in a friends gunshop in Bozeman and he had a nice Woodward sidelock 12ga. I picked it up and opened it and that same part of the wood broke off near the back of the sideplate and raised up considerably. We were able to look inside and see what had happened. Whatever the top section of the V-shaped main spring in the workings connected to had broken off and the spring had come up and broke that relatively thin section of wood nearly clean off. Who woulda thunk it!? Needless to say he wasn't able to sell me that one after that. Very nice gun too.