I don't have near the knowledge of the early custom makers that Michael does........but I believe he knows, or has a good idea who stocked this.
The checkering is very good. Lots of coverage, and the diamonds are nicely spaced and cut well. The points have nice vertical lines throughout. That's good spacing. It's also a pretty good stick of wood.
A couple things puzzle me........it's a G&H side mount, but as Joe alluded to, the mounting isn't the quality of G&H. The raceway on a G&H mount is smooth and almost undetectable. And that's typically pinned and screwed. There also isn't any special treatment of the ejection port.
The grip shape reminds me of Seymour Griffin, but I'm not familiar with that comb nose treatment.
Trap grips and butts were relatively expensive options even back then........and these appear to be quite nicely done. I wish there were more pictures of the entire rifle....including the cheek piece, butt plate checkering, top of wrist checkering pattern, etc.
I couldn't put a realistic price on it, but I might go out on a limb and put at least triple of where it was listed.
Last edited by GrandView; 07/21/12 06:31 PM.
