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PMs received and doors will go out today to Doc, Whitey and Rob. Anyone else? Good luck and keep us posted on progress!
Regards, Joe
You can lead a man to logic but you can't make him think. NRA Life since 1976. God bless America!
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Sorry, this is as big as I can make the picture, not a trap door.. 
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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Roger Biesen still makes a pretty nice one if you don't want to make your own.
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I think.?? the main problem is finding trapdoor buttplates to fit factory stocks like the M-70 etc. Or someone to modify your own buttplate. ??. If building a new stock even if expensive they are available. Am I right.???
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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.
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Also, I think, and hope to know this for a fact next week or so,
that if you made a circular trapdoor but put an oblong recess in
the stock, that you could angle a Lyman 48 slide through the circular hole in the buttplate and up into the oblong recess.
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Thanks Fred. As I am going to do the buttplate you let me have and the door Joe is sending us.To fit my Westley Richards take down project.As the plate it self fits perfect. Whitey
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Well, there is a baggo steel Winchester buttplates out there already on nice guns. Someone could start a nice cottage industry installing traps on existing rifles.
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Eighbore. I was thinking if there was enought interest. I would ask my friend (the sight blank maker) if he would be interested in helping everone out. Whitey
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A source of round trap doors dould be U.S. military buttplates, Krag and 1903. One is bigger, I don't know which as I don't have an issue 1903 to compare to my Krags.
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