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Gunsmithing: replacing a curved steel butt plate with a rubber recoil pad

November 25, 2020 Bill Marr 0

Many older rifles and shotguns have metal or Bakelite butt plates. Sometimes they are curved as well. While this is a nice touch, often times replacement parts are hard if not impossible to come by […]

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