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Anyone else that can explain this metal buttplate on a 1976? rifle, please let me know!
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It's like this: there are 2 Phillips head screws in the buttplate (one top, one bottom. Unless you lay it on its side, in which case you have a left and a right), and 1970s plastic buttplates were very brittle. In case of breakage, you insert a #0 Phillips screwdriver into the top (or right) screw slot, turn counterclockwise, repeat on the bottom (or left) screw. Remove and replace the fragments with an aluminum buttplate (off of a Rem 760 that someone wanted a recoil pad on) out of the gunsmith's spare parts bin under the counter by inserting the screws and turning clockwise with the aforementioned #0 Phillips screwdriver. Voila! 1968 becomes 1976.
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