| Huvius |
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| 22/10/13 11:55 PM |
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Re: Very interestin Gibbs .470 NE
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If it was born like that, then wouldn't the Selous plate be flush up to the back of the action action, and not just dropped directly in on the middle of the chequering? (without any border to the top of the plate)
Looks like a creative repair to a cracked stock to me...
Good point Nordmann.
I guess that not knowing just how thick the steel is clouds my perception of how difficult these plates would be to make.
They are probably much thinner than I think, that is why there are so many screws used to attach them. Even a thin compound form, if well fixed around the edges, would be quite rigid and I would think there would also be other types of stabilization of the break underneath the plates which we cannot see.