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I was considering that. I'm reading John Henwood's book and he says that during the first few years of production they were fitted with the vulcanite flat shotgun style butt plates. I've seen the reproduce ones but everything I find is curved. I'll keep digging but in the meantime if anyone know whe...

My stock is 13 1/4 (LOP). So this brings me to my next question. For the guns that had the flat butt plates, what do they look like? Are they the same design as the curved ones? I would at least like to make my gun as correct "as possible". I would guess that someone basically cut the cres...

Thanks for the reply, I forgot to specify that it is a straight stock.

If anyone has a five shot magazine tube for a model 11 I'd be interested. Thanks!

Hello all, I just acquired my first Model 8 and had a question regarding the stock. My rifle was made in 1907 and appears to be a standard grade with some non-factory checkering (in my opinion). At some point an after market recoil pad was put on and I was trying to determine if the stock was cut do...

That's the gun alright. He's got $320 in it if memory serves me correct and I have to say, he's pretty happy with it for his first one. It's a solid gun and despite its flaws, they are fortunately nothing that can't be fixed. We've been looking at replacement stocks for shooting purposes but just we...

My friend doesn't live in Ohio but for all intensive purposes he might as well since he lives just on the Kentucky side. And this could very well be the same rifle that was seen at Louisville because that's where he got it last weekend. I'll get him to send me some pics so I can post them.

Ok, I thought I posted this earlier but apparently not. Lets try this again.... I have a friend who just purchased his first model 8. It has what appears to be a chromed or nickel plated cresent butt plate. I figured this was something someone did to it themselves. We recently found a photo from a c...