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Someone on here, I believe it was Pete Hiatt, found a $100.00 bill under a buttplate once.... A couple years ago I bought a Grade V Model 12 that had a 4" mercury recoil suppressor in the buttstock secured with a few plastic wads. That is the only thing I have ever found under a buttplate. I did buy an old SXS hammer gun that was strictly a wallhanger, several years ago. I wanted an old antique to hang on the wall in my newly redecorated kichen. So I bought it at a flea market in Burlington, Kentucky. When I was lifting it up to the wall, I bumped it on the ladder and a roll of one dollar bills fell out of the barrel. I got a pair mechanical fingers out of my garage and started pulling out several rolled up rolls of one dollar bills that were jammed down in there. I had to beat several of them out because they were wedged clear down to the hammers. There ended up being 233 dollars stuffed down that old gun. The serial numbers on the dollars weren't that old. Who would ever think of looking down the barrels of an old gun like that? I guess "gun safe" took on a new meaning. (I won't tell you what I did with all of those dollar bills, though.

I purchased a LC Smith 16 ga. OO Grade, behind the buttplate was a one hundred dollar bill.

Pulled the buttplate off a Boito hammer coach gun one time and found a family of illegal migrant workers living in the through-bolt channel! KBM

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Now THAT'S funny!

Once found two ,circa late 1920's Illinois hunting licenses,under the plate on a Stevens hammergun, gave one to a friend from IL. and passed the other one with the gun when I sold it.

I took the butt off an old gun of mine and found my own name and address from 25 years, 4 houses and one wife ago. It was dated from the night before the duck opener in 1980. I had forgotten I wrote it.

I know a guy who pulled the plate off a very old A5 and found a 30" string with 4 nails tied to one end and an oily rag tied to the other. It may have been the first barrel weasle.

Jeff

Pulled the plate on an A5 - looked like it had never been off before, and there was a date stamp - assumed it was the date of manufacture - sometime in Nov 1979 i think from memory.

Jonty

I have my great uncle's hunting licenses from 1917 to the early 1920s in the butt of a 97 Winchester. Now a bunch of my licenses have joined them.

I have my great uncle's hunting licenses from 1917 to the early 1920s in the butt of a 97 Winchester. Now a bunch of my licenses have joined them.