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Oughta put a $20 gold piece in there with it.

A double eagle?

St. Gaudens.

Dang, I just gave my last one to the girl at Paradise City!

I just remembered one from a milsurp, K-31 stock. I guess we should all put one in our rifles today, ‘Go Brandon’. They can try to figure it out 35 years from now.

I bought a Savage 99 in 300 savage for my son for his first deer rifle. In the butt stock was the original bill of sale and original hang tag. The rifle was purchased in 1936 and I bought it in 1997 from the original owners son.

I have found a few things, nothing noteworthy, but of the few guns I have ever sold I generally put a little something in the stock to intrigue the next guy.

Model, production/shipping date or estimate...and the 24HCF link.

Wouldn’t fit

I have an 1919 .250 in the safe, now I’m thinking I should take a look.

Bought a Model 1920 250-3000 that had made it's way around south-eastern Kootenay, BC up to Yellowknife in the Yukon. Trapper's gun I was told with a very early serial number - 103X. To make a long story short, under the butt plate wrapped in a oily rag was a Marbles 250-3000 cartridge extractor:



(the 250-3000 to 25 Auto reducer was bought from a member on this site)

Didn’t find any hidden treasure in my stock, but what it the 61* an inspector number??

.250 Stock

Yup.

Yellowknife is in the North West Territory’s....

From an earlier post in the Savage forum..,

‘Almost a great ending, but true.

Bought a 99F out of NY that had a private bill of sale in the butt stock from 1961. Both buyer and seller were from Michigan. After some research, the buyer was dead and so was his son, but not his grandson. I contacted the grandson and asked if he wanted to buy back his late grandfather’s 99F for same money. He was appreciative but passed. I would have bought it in a second.’

Maybe we aughta stick nekked girly pitchers in there, and thataway when we do some swapping we got some new blood to look at.

"Yellowknife is in the North West Territory’s...."

Correct, my bad. I mixed up Yellowknife and Whitehorse. It was Whitehorse, YK. I stand corrected.

I recall selling the rifle to someone in SK, if I'm not mistaken.

No worries, lived in Whitehorse a few years and saw that a bunch.

Amazing how many people at the post office knew that Whitehorse was in the North West Territory’s 😉

Don’t think it was me

Cheers

My dad bought a Winchester Model 12 at a pawn shop in New Mexico in the late 1980s.

It was if I remember correctly around a 1915 production gun that was a 28" full choke. Like most nickel steel Model 12s, most of the blue was worn off, but it was mechanically sound. I'd been shooting a 1970s 870 Wingmaster that I'd scrounged together enough money to buy because I thought I needed a 12 gauge. I will always remember how much more natural and easy it was to smoke targets with the Winchester compared to the Remington. The 870 felt like swinging a barrel-heavy 2x4 next to the graceful old Model 12. I've never cared much for 870s since that day.

This gun started my dad off on collecting Model 12s and after a year or so he'd bought a couple more, and I was able to trade him funds from the sell of the 870 and some weekend / Summer work I was doing for him for the Model 12. We decided the gun was beat enough that putting a recoil pad on it wouldn't hurt. So my dad removed the buttplate and out fell a business card.

The business card appeared to be from the time period the gun was new and was the card of a newspaper owner from a town 120 miles north of where we purchased the gun and across the state line in Texas. That town happened to be the same town where my great grandfather bought 2,000 or so acres from the XIT about the time the Model 12 was produced. The newspaper man was my great grandfather's hunting buddy and they bought identical Model 12s roughly at the same time with the exception that my great grandfather's gun was a 30" full choke. My great grandfather's gun was last seen the 1970s when his daughter's eventually ex-husband borrowed it.

We called the newspaper man's son, and he showed up a couple of days later with a new Browning BPS, which I didn't want, so my dad negotiated a fair deal to sell it back to the family. I replaced it with a late 1950s production 28" modified, 16 gauge Model 12, which is one of my favorite upland combinations to this day.