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Hey, Y'all
I'm a new guy to this site, but what with this forum for single-shots, and another for big bores and doubles, it looks like heaven to me-----
I have a pair of early '95s, one in 30-03 that will stick 5 rounds of 30-06 Lake City Match in 2" at 100 yards with it's original #21 Lyman receiver sight, and the other in .405, also with the #21 Lyman which shoots about the same, if you don't let it intimidate you. Both these firearms are the full rifle style with the heavier, straight taper barrels, instead of the wimpy, too-light jump-down barrels that Browning, and now Winchester, is using. Both these guns had the crescent butplates when I acquired them, and although the .30 has virtually no recoil due to the heavy-for-caliber barrel ('bout like shooting a .410), it only took one round of original 300-gr. solid Winchester ammo out of the .405 to show me that "sumpin's gotta get differnt!!!". So I ordered two of the stocks that Browning was then using on their re-pop 30-40 and 30-06 '95s, at a damned-reasonable price as I remember. These used a nearly flat steel buttplate, which I replaced, after making the buttplate surface perfectly flat, with a nice red English style leather faced 3/8" shotgun type pad. The stocks slipped right on the old Winchesters, without any alterations to the inletting, and the wood-to-metal fit came out nearly perfect. This one relatively inexpensive fix went MILES in taming this hard-kicking rifle. I of course saved the crescent stocks, for the very unlikely chance that I might someday have to put this pair of guns up for sale.
I'm relatively certain that Winchester would gladly sell a person one of the stocks they are now using on their re-pop '95s, and since the same people that made the Brownings is now building the Winnies, I'm pretty certain it would fit the old guns just as well as mine did.

"When in doubt, use more gun!!!!!"

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