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Anybody got a lead on where I could find a steel butt plate for a 1900 vintage Marlin Model 1893 Takedown?
Somebody in the past decided to cut my stock and add a recoild pad....what were they thinking? The gun is in "out of the box, mint condition" other than that...no exageration! Case hardening and blueing are 100%.
I would be interested in a complete stock, if I could find one...which I would think would be impossible, but I'm not a true collector, so maybe I'm wrong.
With a Butt Plate, at least I could build a stock that is original in design. Resale means nothing to me since the gun is my Great Grandfather's and would never be sold...unless somebody had an extra $100 thousand, or so.
Marlin 1893 Takedown == 38-55 Win
Winchester Model 1895 == 30-06
Savage Model 99 == 303 Savage
Patience is all I really have to offer. Do you know if it had a crescent type?
They are few & far between. But Numrich has modern ones that are slightly different. I used a couple & went about it by whittleing at the wood.
MM93 recently used one & altered the plate instead.
You might find a stock with a plate if your very lucky but it'll likely cost.
Or you could get a 90% fitted stock from Tree bone carving or Precision & go that route.
Numrich sells a buttplate that is "in the white" for the 1895 Century Ltd., and is a very close fit to the originals! I found that it's not quite as curved as the stock crescent, but is easily formed. I put it on a couple of woodblocks and gave it some whacks with a hard rubber mallet, checking it against the stock often. Once it was extremely close I did a tiny bit of filing on the stock to get the final fit.
The top tang of the plate was slightly longer, so I cut some off. The OAL was also slightly long, so I filed it to fit. It really took very little time (maybe 1 /12 hours?) to fit and shape it to the stock.
Numrich also carries the "S" style steel plate, which would be even easier to fit, but a few years later than your gun should have.
Here it is fitted to my 1888.
