doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Alter a classic Bob Owen?

The rifle was made with the finest of wood and the best of metalsmithing by craftsmen that were at the top of their trade and was admired as it was made by no less than Dunlap. Not everyone wanted a hinged floor plate and the absence of a fancy plate doesn't necessarily mean the rifle is not first quality or exactly what the customer or gunsmith wanted or thought desirable. However it does look to me like there's a button release in place on the military floor plate.

The rifle has everything it needs and no frills, gadgets, bells, or whistles. Just handsome lines and the finest materials and workmanship. You can't improve on that. Leave it like it is.

Jerry Liles

There you go. That's the right thing to do(nothing). See how easy that was?

Hinge? We don't need no stinkin' hinge!(grin)

A reasonable alternative IMO would be to acquire a second floorplate and have it engraved with some appropriate embellishment whether strictly cosmetic or perhaps historical/personal in some way. Then store the original plain floorplate in the butt cavity so that the rifle isn't altered beyond restoration.
Regards, Joe

You are a very fortunate man to be able to find that rifle. I copied that stock style on my own rifle stocks many time, although as a mirror image as I'm a lefty. If you also find the "Old sparrow rifle", a .22 also shown in Dunlap's book, that would the holy grail.