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Ephraim

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feather hole
« on: January 02, 2010, 03:47:24 PM »
My question is the feather hole found on some southern rifles are there any known examples on rifles maid in Penn. with feather holes in them?
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Offline Sequatchie Rifle

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2010, 05:22:49 PM »
I have an Ohio rifle with one.
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Offline Gene Carrell

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2010, 05:31:06 PM »
I have a Virginia rifle with one.
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Offline Dave B

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 05:39:56 PM »
I held an original Nicolas Beyer rifle that had one. It had a nice inlaid oval surround that was engraved.
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Re: feather hole
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2010, 09:24:42 PM »
OK, I give - What is a feather hole?

Pictures?
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Offline Ben I. Voss

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2010, 10:39:01 PM »
Two Bears, a "feather hole" is a small hole located on the lower butt stock just ahead of the toe plate, that is used for storing a small feather used as a vent pick.
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Offline Bill of the 45th

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2010, 12:27:14 AM »
Simply the Southern version of the touch hole pick that you see under the cheek piece on a of of Pennsylvania rifles.  The feather hole is a small hole between the toe plate, and the trigger guard. The feather is used to block or clean the touch hole.  If you look at the post Ken, "Packdog" had on "Another Upper East Tennessee rifle 8 pages back on this thread, you will see a Magpie feather in the feather hole. By the way that's my new baby, but Ken forgot to give me the feather, and I had to put in a turkey feather in it's place.

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« Last Edit: January 03, 2010, 12:45:49 AM by Bill Knapp »
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Re: feather hole
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2010, 03:05:33 AM »
You can see the feather stuck into a hole in the bottom of the stock. 

« Last Edit: January 03, 2010, 03:06:54 AM by Ken Guy »
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Ephraim

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Re: feather hole
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2010, 04:29:26 AM »
Quote from: Two Bears on January 02, 2010, 09:24:42 PM
OK, I give - What is a feather hole?

I was told that a blue jay feather was used because the hunters hated blue jays they will give you away(I think it is illegal today to kill a blue jay or keep there feathers)
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