Thread: Winchester 1892 stock

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.