Butt plates
Anyone bought one of these?
http://www.gungrip.com/detail_B418__3275__Mauser%20.html Are they cheap hard plastic junk or a urathane rubber material like a scateboard wheel or urathane aftermarket 4x4 suspension bushing?
It looks almost identical to the one Brownells was selling a few year ago (may be still). The one I bought was hard, relatively stiff (e.g. bend it and it would crack) and pretty dense. With heat applied, you could bend it to fit a buttstock curve.
They could have picked a better original to use for the mold cast though - the thing had 'built in' wear like someone had used it for a crutch. OK I guess, if you are going for the vintage look...
03 July 2008, 06:19
craigsterI haven't bought from them, but I just got a repro Parker buttplate from:
www.vintagegungrips.comNice quality and matched the old original very well.
Craigster, looks like they sell the same buttplates
Is yours a hard plastic or urathane rubber material?
03 July 2008, 07:33
craigsterIt's not hard plastic. It could be a urathane rubber of some type. A real hard push with a thumbnail left a very slight indentation.