Buttplate

Checkered horn buttplate          Molded plastic buttplate                                                 Winchester "Shotgun" buttplate

Winchester "Crescent" buttplate                                                                                            Winchester "Carbine" buttplate

Swiss buttplate

   Winchester "Scheutzen" buttplate

Neidner Buttplate

Custom "skeleton" buttplate

Trapdoor buttplate covering compartments for two 12ga and four .22LR cartridges

  One gunmaker's idea for a custom made buttplate.

An assortment of buttplates.

Buttplate - A plate made of some material harder than the wood of the buttstock, fitted to the end of same, to protect it. It may be made of hardrubber, horn, plastic or steel. It may be shaped relatively flat like a Winchester "Shotgun" butt on a rifle, like a crescent, or with all manner of protruding appendages in the interest of achieving consistancy of mounting position as in a Swiss or scheutzen buttplate. It may be finished smooth, checkered, striated or engraved.

Or, a gun's but may be finished with no buttplate at all---just checkered directly

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