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Winchester pre 64 70 stock length recoil pad

silvermallardsilvermallard Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
edited February 2008 in Ask the Experts
Hi all,
I need some clairification on a Winchester pre 64 standard westerner .264 mag. Did this gun come with a factory recoil pad or plastic but pad or both? What is the length of pull measured from the trigger to end of pad for both? Was the recoil pad the solid or vented type? I am considering buying one and am trying to determin if the stock has been cut. Thanks in advance.
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  • snickerssnickers Member Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The standard rifle had the hard rubber or plastic butt plate and the fwt had a ventilated rubber pad marked Winchester.
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  • Fairlane66Fairlane66 Member Posts: 336 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A rubber recoil pad on a standard Westerner is not correct. However, just because it has a pad added doesn't mean the stock was cut. I have a standard .264 Westerner with a pad, but the pad was simply added after removing the original plastic butt plate. As a result, the length of pull is much too long for me. Fortunately, however, I can easily return the rifle to factory condition by finding and reattaching the stock butt plate. Unfortunately, I don't remember a Westerner's standard length of pull. I have a Winchester brochure for the Westerner that contains all that data, but it's in a box in the attic. Perhaps someone with some documentation (Roger Rule's book?) can enlighten both of us. Thanks.
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  • snickerssnickers Member Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The factory length of pull was 13 1/2"
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  • turtles11756turtles11756 Member Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rule's book page 83 shows a featherweight- westerner with a recoil pad and white line spacer in .264 serial #550,483
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  • snickerssnickers Member Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The standard rifle had the hard rubber or plastic butt plate and the fwt had a ventilated rubber pad marked Winchester
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  • silvermallardsilvermallard Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for your responses. There still seems to be some uncertainty about the butt plate. Snickers believes hard rubber or plastic while Fairlane66 believes plastic only. I am certain ventilated is not correct. I have seen them original with black plastic but the ones I have seen with hard solid rubber have been add ons. I am not an expert thats why I asked.
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  • snickerssnickers Member Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think there is some confusion concerning the hard rubber butt plate. There is no plastic butt plate it is a hard rubber that is most often refered to as plastic. The recoil pads that are soft rubber were only installed on the featherweight .264 and they were ventilated red rubber and marked Winchester. The standard .264 rifle was sold with the hard rubber often refered to as plastic butt plate only.
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