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Vent pick question
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This one is basically a fancy brass tube with 3 prongs I guess you would call them, that hold it in place in the stock. The pick slides in and out of that.
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The staples under a cheekpiece would be for a steel vent pick. If you have "Rifles of Colonial America, vol. 2", look at gun number 111. There is a nifty little pick clipped into the staples. My belief is that this was the more common use of the staples (rather than for a feather). You will also sometimes (though not very often) see a hole in the rear of the cheekpiece, sometimes even with a threaded insert, where the pick will be inserted into the stock. Sometimes a threaded inlay on the bottom of the stock behind the triggerguard would hold a threaded vent pick.
