Butt plate early 8

[uhjohnson]

i have an early 1909, model 8 ( i don"t have the serial at this time) and i need to know what the butt plate should look like. the butt stock is just a regular flat/curved shape (if this is how it is described). Did remington have the UMC on the model 8 butts


thanks

[81police]

I don't have Henwood's book in front of me, but I seem to remember the UMC / Remington merger didn't happen until 1911. I could be wrong but if that's true then a UMC marked buttplate would not be correct. It sounds like your rifle probably had one of the "Remington Arms Co" semi curved hard rubber buttplates.

[Phyrbird]

The early rifles I believe had hard rubber plate. Looked "skeletonized" with checkering inside. Centered a circle with Remington Arms Co. in the circle. It may or may not be stamped with the serial #, most of the steel butt plates were # stamped. In your time period the steel plates had a variety of styles. Some smooth with a similar circle stamped, some with horizontal ridges. Remington wanted to SELL rifles, many had various "options" added up until about 1921 when they started charging extra for these niceties.

[olskool]

my 1908 25cal. has a hard plastic semi curved butt plate, it has in a circle in the middle of the plate, remington arms co. it does have checkering.