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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!
I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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I think the proper response is, "Otay Buckwheat!"
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I agree! They should be made of brass, it's softer.
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I think the proper response is, "Otay Buckwheat!" I tink you're right.
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Okay, I'll bite. Tell us your sad story.
What fresh Hell is this?
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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...
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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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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There should be a law providing the Campfire with unlimited powers over firearms manufacturers. JB for President 2016!!!!
Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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I agree! They should be made of brass, it's softer. LMAO........
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There should be a law providing the Campfire with unlimited powers over firearms manufacturers. And nothing would ever be built. Can anyone see a time when this bunch would ever be in agreement?
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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.
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
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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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No response from the OP. He must have succumbed to his injuries.
Another needless steel crescent buttplate death! Will they never learn. "How many shoulders must a man separate, before they call him a man?"
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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.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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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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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.
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. *Marvin Simkin* L.A. Times (1992)
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In short, I'd just as soon stand in front of that rifle as behind it.
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. *Marvin Simkin* L.A. Times (1992)
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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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