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Finished a custom project today. I have put many a skeleton buttplate on. None have been easier than the one manufactured by Mook Machine (aka Glen Fewless). From start to finish installation took four hours. Great product and well thought out. Glenn, you still have five left to purchase....right?
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I'd like to see a picture if you could please post one.
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My success with getting pics posted is really poor. However, Glenn is pretty good. I believe somewhere he put up pics of all of his work. I will try. My computer skills are worse than my typing skills.
Dennis Earl Smith/Benefactor Life NRA, ACGG Professional member
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Here are a couple of pix of Glenn's skeleton butttplate, he offers a similar solid plate.  
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Elegant, but looks as tho it would actually be easier to fit and inlet a trap buttplate !!
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Elegant, but looks as tho it would actually be easier to fit and inlet a trap buttplate !! I agree, after having done both. However, finding a good trap buttplate at a reasonable price has become difficult these days. The inletting of the skeleton is, if done properly, IMO more than twice as difficult as that of the trap. However the boring, finishing and subsequent lining of the trap cavity has defeated more than one smith so I guess it depends. I personally much prefer the trap or heel-&-toe plates over the skeleton anyway but anything I've ever seen Glenn do has been top-notch so I may hafta try one of his skeletons one day. I have a set of his heel-&-toe plates but haven't used them yet, they're first-rate as usual. Regards, Joe
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It depends on what you want. Nothing quietly says class like a skeleton butt plate with the exposed wood nicely checkered. This shows that the builder is unwilling to overlook any detail to make the finest rifle possible.
Practical? That depends on what you want. A butt trap is very useful in some applications, and of course neither of them soaks up recoil like a good rubber recoil pad. Then again, a solid plate protects the butt about as well as anything can.
All of that being said, I agree with the title of the thread, "Kudos to Glen Fewless." As with everything of his I have ever seen, this plate shows both artistry and technical craftsmanship. On anybody's list of custom gunsmiths, Glen should be placed high! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
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You are dead on right Froggy ( good to see you on board again), Glenn only turns out top notch work. I have a few of his skeleton BP and they ARE the best. His heel & toe clips are of equal quality too.
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IMO a skeleton buttplate on a rifle is an affectation. They properly belong only on shotguns.
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IMO a skeleton buttplate on a rifle is an affectation. They properly belong only on shotguns. So I reckon you are not going to like this one then...   Glenn
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