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What is it?
May 19th, 2016 at 10:30am
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Guess there can't be much doubt, though the dovetailed casting itself looks like a machine tool fixture.  I even know with 99.9% certainty--but unfortunately cannot prove--who built it: gunsmith & inventor John Wilkinson originally of Keesville, NY, later moving to Plattsburgh, NY.
  
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Reply #1 - May 19th, 2016 at 10:35am
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Back part of a machine rest.
  
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Reply #2 - May 20th, 2016 at 8:55am
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It looks like the front  of a machine rest you can see where the plate was milled to accept a particular barrel.

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Reply #3 - May 20th, 2016 at 11:54am
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I'm in Vienna, can't text address from phone.  Look under Gunsmithing SS, Muzzle Rest/Sleds, Reply #72, 05/01/16.  There is a photo of a brass setup.  Think it'll answer your question.  I have seen a photo of your exact setup as a stock rest for a sled.  Stock bottom was perfectly flat with a metal flat.
  
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Reply #4 - May 24th, 2016 at 6:13pm
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They don't make wingnuts like that anymore.


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Reply #5 - May 24th, 2016 at 6:50pm
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machine rest for testing barrels and loads.    the wooden forend-less barrels was rested on it's bottom flat   clamp-on muzzle rest/ sled/ bob-sled. was attached near the muzzle. it had a notch the was used with a locator pin mounted in the wooden plank the formed the third part of the machine rest. The rear part that you have pictured was attached to the rear edge of the end of the plank.  the action and butt stock hung out in the air behind the bench or stand the whole apparatus was clamped to.  the rest simply provided a secure solid "return to battery" firing position.

It might have also been used in the same manner in early Northeastern "slug-gun" competition.
  
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