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Title: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: mazo kid on June 06, 2021, 01:17:08 PM

I had posted this rifle on a different thread and said I wished I knew more about it.

Title: Re: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: mazo kid on June 06, 2021, 01:19:04 PM

I was especially interested in the butt plate.

Title: Re: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: mazo kid on June 06, 2021, 01:27:50 PM

well......DUUH! I have all these books and I never thought to look at them! (jh About 5 seconds after opening Vol. 1 I was reading all about those buttplates. I had called mine a Schuetzen but they were known back in the day as Ballard buttplates. Evidently Winchester got them from the same supplier as they are a direct replacement. A bit later, they designed their own with the top tang to match the inletting of the regular butt plates. They did offer a Schuetzen model (mine was a Special) and that had all kinds of options...including a palm rest.

Title: Re: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: mazo kid on June 06, 2021, 01:30:08 PM

This is just one of many pages devoted to those special order rifles.

Title: Re: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: Hawg on June 06, 2021, 06:13:07 PM

I like those butt plates. That is one gorgeous rifle.

Title: Re: Winchester Low Wall
Post by: Captainkirk on June 06, 2021, 08:10:49 PM

What Hawg said... :)