Brass spacer on Jeremiah's Hawken forestock?

[yellowhammer]

I saw it mentioned in another venue, and after reviewing a screen shot of where Jeremiah Johnson was drawing a bead on a deer running across a snow field, it's plainly visible:

Field expedient repair? Inlet adornment? Optical illusion? It doesn't seem to extend up to the barrel.

 

[William Hagewood]

I always thought it was just an inlay of some sort. Ornamental, but I could be wrong

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Haha, it's just your typical Traditions 2-piece stocked Hawken!

 

[64Springer]

I don't think it's a spacer at all.

That lighter color doesn't extend to the top of the barrel channel.

And where the primer cap be at?

 

[Secesh]

It’s an inlay of a HATCHET

The rifle belonged to “Hatchet” Jack before the Bar kil’t him.

 

[yellowhammer]

It’s an inlay of a HATCHET

The rifle belonged to “Hatchet” Jack before the Bar kil’t him.

Yep, you are right! I went back and looked at the movie and in the scene where he starts to to take a shot at the elk and Bearclaw says "No, you da__ed fool, slide it up over the saddle!", you can clearly see the hatchet inlay:

CASE CLOSED

@Secesh