That close and I’d say it’s almost surely factory. What’s the odds of somebody finding a buttstock that close later on?
This gun was made while Savage was swamped with wartime production. They were likely hitting the spare parts bins to assemble any sporting arm they could because they couldn’t spare time to make new parts.
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