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.

I have been told a butt plate off a 94 will fit the 92?, i.e. find a 94 butt plate with shotgun style end and swap the whole thing over retaining the OG one without butchering it.

I don't believe a 94 butt will fit a 92. Better to try for a Rossi 92 butt, that will work with some little hand fitting, but the wood will not match at all, although could be stained.
Best would be to reconfigure the original butt as above.

Another idea would be to checker/stipple the butt plate the way the pre 64 Winchester 94's were. That will probably stop it slipping.