Dummy slides were available to replace the slide in the sight when a scope was mounted, usually in a sidemount, so the scope could be mounted lower. Whitey made up a few a couple of years ago to replace ones that had been lost over the last 80 years. The rifle Mr. Durren is making for me will have that arrangement with a trap butt plate to hold the staff or blank so it won't get separated from the rifle.

That is a very handsome rifle.

Jerry Liles