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omark

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cheek pieces
« on: April 28, 2014, 12:37:39 AM »
wondering if any long rifles were ever built without cheek pieces, including barn guns, schimmels poor boys or southern mtn rifles. in my area i never have a chance to see originals.     mark
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Offline Acer Saccharum

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2014, 01:00:21 AM »
Certainly there are rifles without cheekpieces. I've seen early rifles with fowler-like stock architecture that have a bare-naked buttpiece.
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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2014, 01:07:10 AM »
I have not seen a southern mountain rifle without a cheek piece but then I have not seen them all by a long long shot.

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Offline Acer Saccharum

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2014, 01:21:48 AM »
On some later guns the cheekpiece is just a whisper tall, not really functional, merely for visual effect.
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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2014, 01:57:45 AM »
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wondering if any long rifles were ever built without cheek pieces, including barn guns, schimmels poor boys or southern mtn rifles. in my area i never have a chance to see originals.     mark
   
Harvey Gillespie (1820-1877) Henderson County/Jackson County NC made a fair number of his rifles without cheek rests. I have seen a few other NC mountain rifles without cheek rests but either they were not attributed to a name or I forgot, which is quite possible!
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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2014, 01:58:30 AM »
Acer,

My best friend in life owned an original circa 1825 - 40 Flintlock Rifle like that and it had no discernible cheek piece..  It was a VERY plain gun with no patchbox, nor carving, nor engraving.  It did have brass ramrod pipes, triggerguard and buttplate.  Mike used to jokingly refer to it as a "Mid Western Poor Boy" rifle gun.

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mack700

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2014, 04:06:47 AM »
RCA #8 had the cheek-piece removed at an early date so I guess they were not popular with at least one guy.
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kaintuck

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2014, 01:49:01 PM »
Iv handle a few old ones......looks like a fellow just grabbed a 2x6 and made a stock......like the little 'boys rifle' that were 22's, back in the late 30's......PLAIN stock!
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Offline Hungry Horse

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2014, 08:06:34 PM »
Many late California guns were built without cheek rests. I own a late percussion rifle built in Elkhart Indiana that has no cheek rest as well.

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omark

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2014, 08:30:55 PM »
i'd like to thank everyone for their replies and info. always amazes me how much knowledge is available on this site and i appreciate how readily it is shared.
it sounds like cheek pieces were nearly always put on fancier rifles but not quite as often on plainer ones.   thanks again, mark
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Offline JTR

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2014, 10:03:27 PM »
You asked about Long Rifles, so, if you look at say pre 1850, east of the Mississippi, Long Rifle style Rifles, I'd say about 99% of them were made with a cheek piece.
Certainly you'll find the oddball once in a blue moon with no cheek piece, but from what I've seen, ( my Free opinion  ;D  ) even the cheapest back action hardware store clunker had a cheek piece.

Move out of those parameters to a later time, out west, non rifle, non longrifle, and you'll find a different story.

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2014, 12:14:53 AM »
     Just for giggles, there were a number of guns made with cheek pieces on both sides---that is like two cheek pieces.  Just never say NEVER.
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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2014, 04:22:45 PM »
Most old guns sans cheeckpiece were those of the percussion era....I've got a few originals that do not have a cheeckpiece. Mostly half stocks, working man's gun, nothing fancy.
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omark

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Re: cheek pieces
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2014, 05:08:34 AM »
I want to thank you all for your replies.    Mark
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