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My thanks to Mr. Worthen for this picture. Before last week I had never seen a picture of Barney Worthen.

I can't find a picture of the take-down and just don't have time right now to do that.

Dan, do you have yours apart and can you take a picture for us?

Just to show you that the hat, white shirt and tie was not a one time thing ;-).

MP,

I do have it apart and the butt stock is at the stock doctors. I will take some photos of the barrel portion tomorrow and send them to you to post.

Dan

Dan,

Thanks, I'll look for them.

Also we might have a good reason there would be a ventilated rib on a Worthen rifle. I knew that he was a trap shooter but did not understand how involved it in he was. More on the subject as we get into this a bit further.

Steve Barnett had a small collection of Worthen takedowns for sale several years ago. Did any of us take advantage?

A look at the two types of bolt-locks that I know of.

This is the early type.



This is the later one and the most common found. There is an indent in the back of the extractor.

In the article it said they thought he had patented the idea, however I was not able to find it. Does anyone know that he did and if so, what the patent number is?

I have never found any patent for him. If your doing a search his given name was "Bernard" Henry Worthen.

This is a very hard question to answer as all these were custom rifles made to fit the new owner.

A rifle for some one 5'2" would be a lot different than a rifle made for, say, a man 6'4". A lot of folks would like me to write the stock dimensions but I have resisted because I can only see more confusion than something useful.

Here is what I wrote about a Wundhammer rifle that was made for a shooting prize and I assume these are some what a one-size-fits-all.

"From this new center line the bottom of the buttplate was then cast-off 1/8� total cast-off for the toe is 3/8�. The length of pull is 13 ��. This is measured from the center of the trigger to the center of the buttplate. The drop at the comb is 1 �� and the drop at the heel is 3�. These measurements are taken from a line drawn through the center of the front sight through the rear sight, continuing on to the end of the stock. The rifle weighs 7 � lb. and the forearm is 10 �� long measured from the front of the receiver ring."