Thread: Winchester 1892 stock

Hi folks,
I recently purchased one of the new Miroku made Winchesters, specifically the 1892 in .44 mag. I have never owned one with a crescent butt before. And truth is I didn't even think about it when I bought it and having it at home I've discovered that I really hate that butt plate. I know they're designed around a different shooting stance, but being so slick and smooth, if you're wearing something like a cotton t-shirt the damn thing slides. Plus I'm not really interested in having a rifle where I have to shoulder it differently to every other rifle I own. I had an 1894 for a while with a "shotgun butt plate" and it was perfect.

I was curious - has anyone modified there butt back to a normal flat style or recommend someone who could?

Or

Knows if a Rossi R92 but plate would work (given they don't have the sharpe edges but still similar shape)?

This rifles butt plate is sharp and excessive.

I cut mine off and put a limbsaver pad on .much better.

not bad wood on that I would take of that butt plate - make up crescent shaped spacer from a suitable piece of wood to level out the butt and a small thin recoil pad even a piece of solid rubber glued on - recoil is not a problem - that way the stock is kept original if you sell it- take the insert of and screw the original but plate back on

I have had both and the crescent buttplate I found no different from memory, you still shoulder it the same, but then maybe the recoil of the .44 Mag is a bit sharper.

You could take the plate off, cut the butt in a straight line vertically with the inside of the curve so the length of pull is the same and then fit a straight / normal butt plate. By fit I mean get one that slightly large and then confirm it to the wood, rather than change the stock. I have done it before a couple of times. In other words, turn it in to a shotgun style butt, (which was an option that Winchester offered for those rifles.)

A recoil pad would ruin the looks of that rifle.