S&W Butt Plates?

[OLDFED]

From time to time I've seen metal butt plates on Smith & Wessons target stocks. Does anyone know where they can be bought?

 

[michael thornton]

they are home made, they were used to bust someones head i think they mostly used brass?

 

[-db-]

I'm not sure all were homemade. I've seen and handled some that were stamped steel with what appeared to be chrome plating. Not something someone hammered out in their garage, in other words. Now, who made them how, when and where, I have no idea. Probably some kind of police supplier from way back.

 

[Ron H.]

From time to time I've seen metal butt plates on Smith & Wessons target stocks. Does anyone know where they can be bought?

Sir, I understand they turn up on the various auction sites from time to time. You might poke around on eBay, Gunbroker, etc.

Or you could just make your own--they're not too complicated. Brass and aluminum sheet are readily available and easy to work with hand tools.

Trace the gun butt on the metal; lay out, drill and countersink the screw holes; cut out the rough shape; sand and polish to final size; mark and drill corresponding holes in the stocks; and then mount it to the gun.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

 

[Dennis The B]

I have a Model 29-2, that came with a metal butt plate. This one is polished steel of some sort. It even has the owner's initials etched into it. He was a Detroit Police Officer. When they had to give up their saps and night sticks, a lot of officers had these installed, and used them as "persuaders". Why mess up the stocks on your nickel N frame when you could just as easily mess up his head?

 

[JCS&W]

I have a M28-2 with the metal butt plate on it. A retired small town police officer told me just recently that he put some on his, way back in the late '60's, in case he had to "restrain" someone and not damage his sidearm. I have seen them on e-bay, but not recently.

 

[handejector]

Where do you see most grip chips on cop guns?

The bottom edge.
Bumping Car doors and posts getting in and out, door jams in buildings, walls, dumpsters and whatever when scuffling or when moving fast.
Most of the cops I knew with them just wanted to keep the grips from chipping.
Lots of them still carried saps, or sap gloves, or knucks.
If a strict dept did not allow those, most still carried the modern batons or asps.
Course, in a pinch, some perps were dumb enough to attack a gun butt with their head......

 

[DeathGrip]

Where do you see most grip chips on cop guns?

The bottom edge.
Bumping Car doors and posts getting in and out, door jams in buildings, walls, dumpsters and whatever when scuffling or when moving fast.
Most of the cops I knew with them just wanted to keep the grips from chipping.
Lots of them still carried saps, or sap gloves, or knucks.
If a strict dept did not allow those, most still carried the modern batons or asps.
Course, in a pinch, some perps were dumb enough to attack a gun butt with their head......

Later to be known as butt heads.

 

[Muley Gil]

Back in the '70s, in the Deep South, these buttplates were common. They came anywhere from sheet brass to about 3/8" thick. Some had an engraved "S&W"; others had the owner's initals. Most were made by jewelers.

One officer I knew carried a M29 with a buttplate that was engraved "Barney".

Yep, he was little bitty feller.

 

[medxam]

Anyone know of a source where one could purchase some "butt plates" today