Remove Medallion ? -Browning Mtn Rifle

[Sage1]

The Centennial Ed. of the Jonathan Browning Mountain Rifle has a medallion imbedded in the stock and a metal medallion / bust of J. Browning attached to the lock. I don’t mind the stock medallion but not a fan of the one on the lock. Anyone seen one where the medallion on the lock has been removed. I’m wondering how it’s attached. Pinned, soldered, epoxy?
Thanks in advance.

 

[bpd303]

I would pull the lock and look at the inside, may give a clue on how it's mounted. If no screw or rivet head then probably epoxied or soldered on. Sorry I can't say for sure.

 

[Eric Krewson]

If it is held on by a screw it is pretty easy to plug the hole where it doesn't show.

I have plugged and errant hole in a lock bolster by countersinking the hole on the outside, putting in a screw that is protrudes from the hole slightly, peeing the end of the screw into the countersink and filing it flush. If you did this on your lock you would have to re-brown it. The plugged hole is to the left of the bolster screw.

If you just put the right sizes screw in the hole and browned the end at the lock plate it wouldn't show much, to the casual observer it would look like it belonged there.