does it come with the buttplate? if not, can I put the original buttplate on it? thanks.
It comes with all the metal hardware attached.
You will want to remove it all and clean off all the grease/cosmoline that they coated the metal parts with.
I took it all apart and then boiled the metal parts (several times until clean) in an old pot on the stove with some dishsoap in the water. I even pulled out the spring in the buttstock that hold the cleaning kit in place.
I held the fiberglass stock under hot water in the shower after spraying it with Simple Green. I wiped it all off with shop towels and paid particular attention to that deep butt stock recess.
After the metal parts were clean of grease, I rinsed and dried them and then applied some Corrosion X (any heavy gun oil will work.)
The really finicky part though was doing all the filing to the stock to get it to fit to the rifle.
I disassembled the rifle and only dealt with the barreled action while I was mucking about.
After I had a snug fit, I rinsed and dried the stock to get rid of all the fiberglass dust, and then I re-oiled the barreled action.
Then it is just reassembly of the rifle and being able to sit back and admire how muck better it looks without that crappy wood.
Oh, you may need to shorten or replace the spring that holds the trigger group under tension, and allows you to pop the action out of the stock for disassembly.
Good luck trying to muscle the trigger group in without modifying that little bugger!
I will try to find some pictures later to show you the before and after.
