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Please pass on to the rifle manufactures that steel crescent buttplates detract from the value of all new rifles. They have no value whatsoever and they hurt. Stop making them!


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Oh Kay.

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Originally Posted by SuperCub
Oh Kay.


I think the proper response is, "Otay Buckwheat!" grin


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I agree! They should be made of brass, it's softer.

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Originally Posted by navlav8r
Originally Posted by SuperCub
Oh Kay.


I think the proper response is, "Otay Buckwheat!" grin

I tink you're right.

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Okay, I'll bite. Tell us your sad story.


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Hmmm. I just got done making a stock for a retro-custom Savage 1899 and I purposely installed a crescent butt plate...



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They look good on old Winchesters....


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There should be a law providing the Campfire with unlimited powers over firearms manufacturers.


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
There should be a law providing the Campfire with unlimited powers over firearms manufacturers.



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Originally Posted by P_Weed
I agree! They should be made of brass, it's softer.


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
There should be a law providing the Campfire with unlimited powers over firearms manufacturers.

And nothing would ever be built.
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Had a Marlin 45/70 in such a configuration. I've shot a 458 and two 338's that didn't come near hurting me as much as that Marlin did....just awful to shoot with heavy bullets.


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No response from the OP. He must have succumbed to his injuries.

Another needless steel crescent buttplate death! Will they never learn.


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Originally Posted by Pappy348
No response from the OP. He must have succumbed to his injuries.

Another needless steel crescent buttplate death! Will they never learn.


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I think most guys have forgotten, if they even ever knew, how a crescent butt plate should be used. We "moderns" automatically place it on our shoulders like we would anything else (where it will bite if used on a gun bigger than a .25-35) when in actuality it should be moved outboard a bit- more toward the upper arm past the knobby shoulder joint where recoil won't make it pinch you. Try it, you'll see what I mean. I read that in a couple of old books and for the life of me I can't remember where. It's the method I use when shooting beasts of that nature and it does indeed work.


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't crescent style buttplates all confined to vintage and reproduction style lever actions and single shots? I've not seen any new rifles sporting a crescent buttplate that wasn't a reproduction or copy of an old, classic design from the latter 1800's/early 1900's. In that context, wouldn't the gun in question actually be worth considerably LESS if it wasn't appointed with "period" furniture typical of its design vintage?

There have been many advancements in firearms design since the 1851 Sharps rifle was built, but people buy today's reproductions from Shiloh Sharps exactly BECAUSE they are true to the classic design, do they not?


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Originally Posted by RifleDude
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't crescent style buttplates all confined to vintage and reproduction style lever actions and single shots? I've not seen any new rifles sporting a crescent buttplate that wasn't a reproduction or copy of an old, classic design from the latter 1800's/early 1900's. In that context, wouldn't the gun in question actually be worth considerably LESS if it wasn't appointed with "period" furniture typical of its design vintage?

There have been many advancements in firearms design since the 1851 Sharps rifle was built, but people buy today's reproductions from Shiloh Sharps exactly BECAUSE they are true to the classic design, do they not?


The snottiest rifle I have ever shot was Ruger #3, with "modern rifle" hand loads in 45-70.
Crescent butt plate killed shoulder, lever tore up my hand, stock slapped face, just nothing to recommend that rifle.


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In short, I'd just as soon stand in front of that rifle as behind it.


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AS the man said the crescent butt plate goes between the shoulder and the chest (there is a pocket there. They were
to be used for offhand shooting, not from a bench. The old
timers stood up to shoot.

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