buttplate pictures
buttplate pictures
Anyone direct me to Fox buttplate pics, SW and or graded guns? Did search butt not much there. George
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Re: buttplate pictures
Butt plates are butt plates from a Sterlingworth to an FE-Grade, all the same. On early plates the screw holes were plain (far left), later plates had a ring around each screw hole.
I have noted one card that asked for a horn butt plate and grip cap, and of course from time to time someone would order the extra cost skeleton steel butt plate.
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I have noted one card that asked for a horn butt plate and grip cap, and of course from time to time someone would order the extra cost skeleton steel butt plate.
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Re: buttplate pictures
Thanks very much. My SW has a non stock buttplate. I suspect it was restocked in the rear without a grip cap. I think the forend slpinter is stock. With these guns being 90 years old it's hard for them to be original. I can hardly wait to see the factory records for both this SW as well as the XE I just acquired. Thanks for your help. George
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Re: buttplate pictures
Fellas, when do we think they switched from the "ringless" to the "ringed" buttplate???....I've never gotten a good handle on that.
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Re: buttplate pictures
Just an update, here's a "ringless" buttplate from the Savage era. IME most of the A H Fox/Utica buttplates have the ring but once in a while you'll see one that's original and ringless. This one on a nice 20b Utica Sterly that came by last week. And as I recall, it was Mountain Mike who picked up a 16b Utica Sterly last year, that has a ringless buttplate. Silvers
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Re: buttplate pictures
I think both were used during all production. I have a early SW #51533 probably 1910 with a Ringed buttplate a CE 12 #26655 1921 (Ringed) and a 1936 A grade 16 #303581 with a non ringed plate. Perhaps they were supplied by different companies or the first in last out of the bin, as was the norm for Winchester was the reason.
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