Helm shot a 75 in a Schuetzen three shot match and Winchester was so impressed they named a buttplate after him.

Tom_Trevor assra life no.71 wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 2:21pm:

Isn't there also a Helm pattern lever?

A: a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering
B:broadly, the entire apparatus for steering a ship 

Smoke wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 6:13pm:

I think that's what is referred to as a spur lever

Helm was George Helm, a California shooter that designed the butt plate. Quite a story behind his three-shot 75 score is in the Stevens-Pope books. Winchester was so impressed with the customized Hi-walls used by the California shooters in one of the Glendale Bundesfests that they came out with their own Schuetzen rifle and fine double set triggers in 1897.

rkba2nd wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2023 at 11:59am:


The documents I received with the rifle indicated the original owner returned the butt plate and had the prongs altered and re-cased.
So, it's been "cut-twice" 

Just to complete the circle, the earliest factory standard high wall Schuetzen rifles followed the “Helm Pattern” with a distinctively shaped stock having the hooked buttplate shown earlier in this thread, the wide spaced DSTs enclosed in a rather simple lever with a finger hook, and usually the so-called “tuning fork” palm rest.  AFAIK, these were all made on the early, leaf spring actions.

Later, Winchester released a coil spring high wall with a differently shaped butt plate and stock, and an ornate lever with lots of curlicues.  I believe these got the “door knob” style palm rest.  This model was designated the “Laudensack” style.

This is all from my admittedly fading memory, but I think it is correct.  At one time CPA offered semi-inletted butt stocks and white metal butt plate castings in both styles.  Rodney Storie once offered castings of both(?) levers.

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