Probably been answered before, but I searched the topic and it seems most of the older pics have gone on to photobucket heaven.
On the rifles with V forearms, particularly the first two in Dennis’s Gillespie book, is the V forearm shape like my crude drawing? Kind of hard to tell in photos, but it appears to be concave towards the bottom rather than a true V shape, almost like the finger grooves in more modern unmentionable rifle forearms.
Bob