Hello,

Purchased a rifle (pics forthcoming!) marked 'Morton' and wearing one of the Pachmayr pads that they would produce with the shops name.

Rifle is of very high quality workmanship, so I am interested in an history of the Morton Gun Works I can find.  Google turned up a few tidbits but I thought Arfcom Texas may be able to expand the knowledge base.

Any information is helpful and I will hopefully be able to ask additional questions based on the replies.

A couple pictures when I had it apart for examination.   More later.

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It appears that Morton Gun Works was located at:

2115 Santa Fe

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Morton(of Texas):

I lived at 2010 Santa Fe for 5 years. It's not there now. It is an apartment building now.

My Dad, now going on 83 years of age, has always been a gun tinkerer and into custom bolt rifles. I remember him talking about Morton and the quality of his work. I'll try to remember to ask him about it in the morning.

  FWIW, Supreme Radiator and Guys Floor's are still in business, Mrs. Horany found her billfold, and the five room rent house is now going for $35 a month.

ETA- That is a gorgeous rifle that has the typical styling of 1950's and '60's custom guns.

Thank you for the information.
Deep digging through Google turned up a few bad pics of other Morton rifles.  All had nice lines, but the pics were not good enough to see detail.
A couple of comments that Morton may have had only one arm.  Maybe your father could confirm or deny that story.

 Talked to Dad this morning about this. The guys name was Paul Morton. Dad said he died 30, maybe even 40 years ago. Yes, he lost part of his arm just above the wrist when a customer brought a loaded shotgun into his shop for some work.

  He did some work for Dad on a Mannlicher-Schönauer in the late '50's or early '60's. He said he did beautiful work but was crotchety and sometimes downright rude and condescending. Dad said his stock work was known for the hand-carved Schnabel for ends on them. He also said he remembered one of his rifles being featured in a Gun Digest back in the '60's. I still have Dads Gun Digest from 1966, I'll look at it and see if that happens to be the one.

 What caliber is that rifle?

.270 Winchester.