1976 Wingmaster - Bearing plate needed ?

Ok don't get mad at me. Did you look real hard to make sure there isn't a plate stuck to the back of the receiver already or so mod made there
That stock is vintage remington police wood as is the recoil pad. The grip plate is off a vintage wingmaster which could have been screwed on to the police wood
Not fitting with a plate isn't making sense
Cheers
 
3macs1 said:
Ok don't get mad at me. Did you look real hard to make sure there isn't a plate stuck to the back of the receiver already or so mod made there
That stock is vintage remington police wood as is the recoil pad. The grip plate is off a vintage wingmaster which could have been screwed on to the police wood
Not fitting with a plate isn't making sense
Cheers
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I double looked and there is definately no plates. I think the one I received is slightly too wide and does not seat fully into the receiver. Fit seems decent without it, but I'm pretty sure the wood touches the receiver where the trigger guard is.
There was no plate there when I got the shotgun. Old stock was cracked near the trigger guard on both sides.

I think I'll just grind the bearing plate so that it seats fully at the bottom and reassess. There is like 0.5mm excess metal on both sides.

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No it fits perfectly :p

Would you guys install a decelerator pad on this or just use the brown pad. I have that decelerator pad kicking around just waiting to be used.
 
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When I look at the end of your new stock I can see a groove in the bolt hole which looks like it may be binding there
Is that hole the right diameter will the stock pull tight without the bearing plate

Look at this police wood and look at that hole

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It's seems like the taper end of the old buttstock was longer and did not require a plate, the new one is quite shorter. Will get some pictures ASAP. (Just stripping the clear coat right now)
 
Just refinished the old cracked stock and the ''new'' one. Stripped the clear coat on both of them and re-oiled with linseed. The new one looks much better now, still not an absolutely perfect match, but it looks good.

Apparently the 20in barrel I bought for this shotgun came from Regina PD. Not sure how true that is. There is P.D. engraved on the barrel where it enters the receiver. Kind of cool anyway. Would just be missing a +2 or +3 blued mag extension now :)

Old stock refinished, too bad it's cracked :(
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Different taper ?
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Finished (with bearing plate installed) !
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Looks good. Just a note when we (at my old PD) installed magazine extensions on the Police 870's we began to experience stoppages. This was due to the seam between the extension and existing mag tube. It was amplified with certain cartridges. Remington ammo was fine as was Winchester most of the time. Our old favourite Imperial Special SSG would hang up 50% of the time. We liked that Canadian buckshot so much we removed the extensions and ran the guns stock. I doubt you could find much Imperial buckshot now but just a good to know.

Darryl
 
Megaclocker said:
It's seems like the taper end of the old buttstock was longer and did not require a plate, the new one is quite shorter. Will get some pictures ASAP. (Just stripping the clear coat right now)
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Honestly the extension or taper as you call it is short on your new stock but it doesn't matter it is on now and looks good
I think it was a bolt hole issue but who cares
take care
 
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