Young shotgun

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I'm looking for any information on the original stock length and original but plate for this gun. If someone else actually has one, I'd love to see it or at least pictures and measurements of the buttplate. It sucks to own such a great piece of history without any buttplate at all. Someone cut mine down and was going to install a modern recoil pad on it before I rescued it from the butchers.

[swifty]

This is a new one on me. A fairly unusual shotgun. There's not much online either. I found one decent pic of the field gun. The gun appears to be in stock and available for sale. You might use a set of screen calipers to get dimensions using your shotgun for reference.

I would contact the seller and have him get some measurements and a ton of pics for you, it might cost you a bottle of beverage though. Ask for a pencil rubbing and a tinfoil impression of the buttplate. A mold could be made and some plastic poured.

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Pics are copyrighted so here is a link, about 4/5ths of the way down the page; Mick's Guns

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I also found this, not having fondled a Young Repeating shotgun I can't attest to the accuracy. The errors are in the article.

YOUNG REPEATING SHOT GUN.

This arin, the invention of Charles A. Young, the well-known and popular trap shooter, is a single barrel, two shot gun without a magazine, designed for target and live bird shooting. and made to shoot nitro powders. It is hammerless, and made with a rib which enables the shooter to more easily and clearly line up the gun by inakimf a stright line of sight. It is a take down, and has no extra length on account of the shell carrier. It has a solid breech block containing a groove large enough to admit the end of the barrel, making it absolutely safe. The action of the gun is simple and positive, very easy to operate and shoots any length of shells from 2;,.! to 3 inches.

To assemble the gun, place the butt of the stock under the right arm, grasp the stock at the pistol grip and put the forefinger over the safety finger slide that projects under the breech block in front of the trigger guard. To assemble the gun if it is not cocked, it is only necessary to slide it together.

To take the gun down, move the barrel out about one and one-half inches from the breech block and take the thumb of the left hand and press down on the front piece of the cocking rod and disconnect the same. Then, with the front finger of the right hand, push up the latch lever and hold this latch up until the barrel is removed.

In order to use this gun as a two shot gun, when the gun is closed, push backward on the safety button on the bottom of the breech block. This releases the carrier and permits it to come up and the shell is placed in the carrier and pushed down until the shell catches tinder the latch, which holds the shell down and the second load is placed in the barrel; the gun is closed and the shells are in the proper position. After the first shell is discharged, with the left hand push the barrel forward, giving it full stroke, then brim; the same back and it is ready for the second shot.

In placing thc shell in the carrier, take the same between the thumb and middle ling,er, front finger on top of the shell ; slant the shell down and press back OH the same. This will put the shell tinder the little finger which holds the shell in the carrier; then, if the front finger is pressed down and pulled back, the shell will go under the latch and remain down.

For trap shooting, where one shot is required only, close the gun, push forward on the safety button on the bottom of the breech block and this holds the carrier down and, for the single shot, place the shell in the barrel.

\\hen the gun is closed, the barrel cannot he moved forward until the gun is fired or the safety finger slide in front of the guard pulled back. If the 1.;tin is loaded and it is desired to remove the shell withont discharging the same, mill back on the safety linger in front of the guard and the gun open and the shell eau be removed.

EncyclopediaSource.com

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Great ideas. I have search for info and pictures a few times and seen the info you posted but, I hadn't thought of trying to get rubbings before.