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i have an early 1909, model 8 ( i don"t have the serial at this time) and i need to know what the butt plate should look like. the butt stock is just a regular flat/curved shape (if this is how it is described). Did remington have the UMC on the model 8 butts


thanks

I don't have Henwood's book in front of me, but I seem to remember the UMC / Remington merger didn't happen until 1911. I could be wrong but if that's true then a UMC marked buttplate would not be correct. It sounds like your rifle probably had one of the "Remington Arms Co" semi curved hard rubber buttplates.

The early rifles I believe had hard rubber plate. Looked "skeletonized" with checkering inside. Centered a circle with Remington Arms Co. in the circle. It may or may not be stamped with the serial #, most of the steel butt plates were # stamped. In your time period the steel plates had a variety of styles. Some smooth with a similar circle stamped, some with horizontal ridges. Remington wanted to SELL rifles, many had various "options" added up until about 1921 when they started charging extra for these niceties.

my 1908 25cal. has a hard plastic semi curved butt plate, it has in a circle in the middle of the plate, remington arms co. it does have checkering.