buckstix,
Regarding the possibility of a dovetail cut in the receiver, the rifle is yours and, in your hands, making you the authority on it. As I said, my idea was only a supposition.
Mike

Raimey,
buckstix disputes the idea that there was ever a dovetail, and he has the rifle "in hand". However, if there had ever been a dovetail, that is where it would have been. A tight-fitting filler would have been put in and filed/polished to match and then stippled to conceal the faint line at the joint.
Mike

Last edited by Der Ami; 03/03/25 12:16 PM.