I've hit a conflicting issue. The more I hold the rifle, the more I fall in love with it, stock included. What irritates me terribly is that somebody cut down the buttplate and added a plastic one. How hard would it be to retrofit an original buttplate back on this? Did they ever come totally flat or are they all curved at the bottom?

If that doesn't work, I'd at least want a metal one. I've done the wooden dowel trick to plug old screw holes, and would fill in the trapdoor slots so that part of it isn't outside of my abilities.

The barrel looks indexed right based on the lines but on one side of the barrel where it screws in is a very slight gap. Is this normal?

Lastly, is there any info I can get out of those markings on the receiver and magazine?

Thank you again.