Howdy Gents,
Sometime back I posted some info here about a shortened pre-war Model 70 action in a John Hutton (who is mentioned in M. Petrov's second book) stock along with numerous photos. About that same time, while going through more of my dad's stuff that he had gotten from John's widow when he passed, I found an old photo of three woodchuck rifles leaned up against an old car with either a 1938 or 1939 Virginia license plate.
The back of the photo has a photofinisher's date stamp showing Jun 6, 1939 as the date the print was processed. The name 'John Hutton' and 'Woodchucks' looks to be scrawled in my dad's hand writing. The date written under the stamped date was added by me.
It sure would be great to know more about these rifles and who they belonged to! I tried looking up the owner of that license plate, but evidently the records aren't available to the general public going that far back.
