I suspect they were sourced from Belgium, but I can't tell if the butt-plate & tubes came from the same source.


Field & Stream, Volume 14, page 29, 1909
http://books.google.com/books?id=6B5YAAA...ted&f=false

“The History of America Arms and Ammunition”

“The gun is made entirely in the well-equipped factory, with the exception of the rubber butt-plates, and the tubes for the barrels, which are imported.”


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Raimey
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