deterioration of horn buttplate

Didn't mean to upset all you fellows by removing the post. I just thought we were done. Wasn't thinking of this as an archive. I replaced what I could remember.

Thank you all for the help with the initial question.
 
I try to scrub posts too. Gunnutz is not transparent in any fashion -- there is no notice of ownership, and all comments belong to that owner. If there was a face with a name it might be different, but there isn't. Might as well be dealing with the computer equivalent of some junkie in a back alley.
 
Dogfish858 said:
I try to scrub posts too. Gunnutz is not transparent in any fashion -- there is no notice of ownership, and all comments belong to that owner. If there was a face with a name it might be different, but there isn't. Might as well be dealing with the computer equivalent of some junkie in a back alley.
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You could always message Greentips (the site owner) and take that up with him...

For all the 'talk' forums that have been started, almost none actually succeed. Personally, I don't really care if this one is run by (All Hail!) our Insect Overlords, it still beats writing letters to the Editor, and never hearing back!
 
Rob said:
Does anyone understand the how and why of the deterioration of horn buttplates?

I have one that is seriously deteriorated, yet the rifle itself is in relatively good condition, not at all like the buttplate.

Could it be some sort of chemical reaction with gun oils or bore cleaning fluids? Is this a possibility?

Here it is, compared with a similar but well-preserved example.

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Carpet beetles and Moth larvae(along with several other disgusting species of insects) all love to eat horn. It's keratin, so a horn buttplate is just like a sweater cracker to them. Looks like that's what happened here.
Damage like that can be repaired with low viscosity epoxy. Gil Sengel did an excellent writeup on it in "Rifle" a few years ago.
 
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