Originally Posted By: gunut
Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Did he happen to mention what year they patented the cracks in the stock behind the lockplates?
I see so many of them that way, I figure it was a trade secret of some sort...


Best,
Ted
"Watch out, kid-they keep it all hid" Robert Allen Zimmerman- 1966!!

They did not patent it until 1913....that is why on most pre 13 guns the cracks mostly stay under the lockplates....


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..