About 35 yrs. ago I worked for a short time at a large gun shop in Tucson. When Harry Lawson guns would come in the shop they were commonly referred to as "dumb holes". A co-worker (who was politically incorrect even back then) maintained they were Harry Lawson's design for the paraplygic.
With odd nooks and crannies, wierd bolt shrouds, strange swept-wing grindings of recoil pads, etc. they looked more like they belonged in the 24th. century on Star Trek more then in Jack O'Conner's home land.
Gadds, a stock stained bright cherry-red with blond forend tip and grip cap!
