I was thinking as I followed the post that King was the builder and seeing that the scope , mounts and butt plate are all items from the same period that they where original to the build.
I just went back and reread your first post. I see that the historical significance of the rifle is that it was stocked by King.
Do you know about when this stock was made?
I believe that the Ross King built the rifle in the first part of 1922. I saw a rifle that did not have items from the same period. If you go back early in the thread you will see that I wrote this before I knew much about Mr. Murphy.
There are a lot of connect-the-dots with this outfit. The action was made about the time the barrel was made and it's not listed in the DCM book. Murphy must have had some pull with both Springfield and Pope to have them so close together. Pope was backed up with work for months if not years. I have not even started looking for Mr. Murphy but I figure he died around 1938.I try to learn not only about the maker but I do tend to form a picture of the person who commissioned the rifle. He had one of the best stockmakers make his stock and had Pope make the barrel. This rifle has no engraving but does have a Pope barrel on a (sporting) hunting rifle. So I figured if I had had this rifle made the only way those modifications would be found on it was if I were dead. I thought 1938 was about right because that was when the last thing was introduced. Ross King might only be a household name in my house but he made a lot of rifles , none that I know are marked with his name. If I can show folks what his work looks like maybe in the future when one of these rifles surfaces someone will not do the same thing to that rifle.
My friend Monte was asked if he would mount a scope on a nice old classic rifle. He told the customer "Sure and when we get done with that we can glue some arms on the Venus de Milo".
What does work is this....If you have a classic rifle and it's worth $1000 mount a scope on it and it's now worth $500.
