Alex Johnson
New member
Hi guys, I'm considering buying an old Remington model 8 chambered in 32 Remington. The gun is overall in very good condition with lots of blueing and stocks in good shape. One potential problem is I cannot tell if the buttstock has been shortened. It has a Remington Crescent steel buttplate on it, but the kicker is that it has been mounted, to my way of thinking, upside down. I don't know a whole lot about Remington rifles, but the Remington trademark is on the buttplate and it appears to be facing in the right direction which kind of confuses the issue. I guess one advantage of mounting the plate this way is that the toe of the stock is protected. Anyway, the job is very well done and I can't really imagine why anyone would take the time to fit the plate on backwards on purpose, so I am wondering if this is original to the gun. Any comments would be appreciated, oh by the way the gun has a Lyman tang site and its selling for $150, sound reasonable?