Buck,
Had you ever serviced or dissambled a Parker, Fox, LC Smith, or Lefever you would know function of side plates. Removing the side plates allows one to clean the action easily. To remove the stock of a Lefever is not much more difficult than removing the side plated and a nother screw or two. Assembly is just as easy. Try that with another American SxS!
Also, as I wrote to you previously, Dan Lefever invented many of the now familiar mechanisms found classic and today's SxS's. There was little on a Lefever Arms gun that was not functional except engraving.
