I am no cognoscenti, but I spend a lot of time looking at buttplates and much more time shooting with them in all manner of positions and many different game and games, so I have lots of opinions (worth whatever you make of them).

Aesthetically, I do not care for a curved plate that meets the stock in a straight line. It looks to me like a "lazy man's" design (no offence intended) that makes it easy and cheap to install but nothing else.

I also like a lot of toe in a stock and thus a lot of curve to the plate for heavy calibers, so that there is plenty of vertical surface area to absorb shock, but the toe for helping with the hold and fit.

Just a considered opinion of one admitted buttplate snob.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)
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