All good comments, keep them coming.

On many older rifles you will see that the wood has split between the trigger hole and the magazine box hole. Before you glue this back together clamp it until they are together then try both the magazine box and the barreled action. I learned this lesson the hard way.

I think some wood did not dry enough before it was used and over the next 50-100 years it shrunk and cracked.

Cracks at the back of the tang are common on these older rifles as it seems all the gunmakers inletted everything as close as possible. I have pictures in my file of a very nice "Unknown" that has a horn insert at the back of the tang and it looks good. last week I saw a picture of a G&H that had the same thing done to it.


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