I've been accumulating material over the last couple of years,
stocks and actions and buttplates, I've finally started working on things in the last year. Maybe two years ago, I won an auction for 5 Model 70 buttplates on ebay. I've got three of them inletted onto stocks now. Sold one and have plans for the other. But one thing I've noticed is that they don't interchange without tiny gaps here and there. I think they were cast and then the casting marks were buffed and polished off and there was enough differences to make them not interchange well. So unless you are starting from scratch or are willing to reinlet a new buttplate and then maybe refinish a portion of the buttstock, the best thing would be to modify the existing buttplate. If I can get this to work, I will take good notes on what I did and share them with everyone that is interested.
