The wood can be shaped with a round knob, or a flat knob which is abreviated RK or FK.   Long tang is the top tâ¦ang of the breech block frame which is the metal that comes down the top of the buttstock and screws into the wood. Usually it is 1/2 wide and about 4-5 long.
What is the purpose and location of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel? Mission San Gabriel Arcangel was founded as part of the effort by the Spanish to settle the territory known as Alta California. The purpose of the mission was to build a community of Christian men and women who would be loyal to the Spanish Crown. An important objective, particularly for the missionaries, was to covert the natives to the Catholic faith.
Father Junipero Serra had sent them to establish a new Mission. The Mission was the fourth to be founded and named Mission San Gabriel Arcangel after Gabriel the Arcangel, or messenger of God.ission San Gabriel was sold by California&#146s governor, Pio Pico, in 1846. By 1862 President Lincoln had returned some of the lands and the Mission buildings to the Catholic Church.