You are right that Galazan is not making the correct repro Pre-64 M70 vent pad any more.  Best bet may be to find an otherwise wrecked take-off stock with the correct factory pad and cross your fingers it's fit is close enough...

I don't have anything suitable.  I do have a rough Featherweight-Westerner (with that pad) that I'm going to send to auction, but no take-off stocks.  I had one but I gave it to a WACA member who had a similar problem a couple years ago.

Good Luck!!!  You'll find what you need eventually...

Lou

 I find something I would like to buy  every day without futzin' around with auctions.

Zebulon said
Years ago, being somewhat OCD, I would buy this publisher's books as they came out. 
I'm going to make a note to my executor to put my library up on the WACA forum at less than scalper prices, after I go in for my last driving layup. 
  

Great idea.  I put a couple books on this site and they sold immediately.  Somehow I ended up with duplicates.  They weren't even Winchester books.  I sold them for what I paid when they first came out. 

I'm going to make a note to my executor to put my library up on the WACA forum at less than scalper prices, after I go in for my last driving layup. 

I'm going to make a note to my executor to put my library up on the WACA forum at less than scalper prices, after I go in for my last driving layup. 

Bert H. said

tsbccut said
Bert,
Thank you for the information. You have confirmed my suspicion regarding the stocks. He always struggled (as do I) to see the difference between Gumwood and Walnut stocks.
And......It fascinates me that Larry was 7 days off on the PR date!
Best regards,
Tom
  

Tom,
You are welcome.  I have to thank my father for my skills in identifying the different types of wood. He worked most of his career in the lumber industry, and in later years he was responsible for grading lumber.  He was also an outstanding wood-worker, and he hand made many different pieces.  I took an interest in learning about the many different types of wood that were used for stock making (and other uses) when I was still a young fellow.  
Currently, I am in the process of refinishing a special handmade wood cabinet that my father built in the early 1960s for his reloading room.  He used it to store his primers and gun powder (in the old 1 lb rectangular tin cans).  It has a 22" wide x 18" deep x 2" White Oak table top mounted on top of an 18" wide x 15" depth x 22" height (internal dimension) box made with 3/4" Redwood planks.  I have lightly sanded the Redwood plank (exterior) and plan to leave it raw (unfinished).  I sanded the oil and solvent stained oak top and will refinish it with Red Walnut oil stain.  It will then go into my man cave and will once again be used to store primers and old tins of IMR gun powder (e.g. 4198, 4350, 3031, & 4064).
Bert
  

Sounds like quite a project. Kudos for preserving your Father's hand crafted work. I cherish the few items I have from my Father's police and US Navy service.

Tom

fred.lasor@gmail.com said
I don't hang around these parts much, and I now realize I should.  You got any more like that 38-40 takedown 1892?  I obviously tuned in 3 months too late!  
 
Fred
  

Fred,

Unfortunately, I don't have another one like it. Thanks for asking though.

Al

Fred

tsbccut said
Bert,
Thank you for the information. You have confirmed my suspicion regarding the stocks. He always struggled (as do I) to see the difference between Gumwood and Walnut stocks.
And......It fascinates me that Larry was 7 days off on the PR date!
Best regards,
Tom
  

Tom,

You are welcome.  I have to thank my father for my skills in identifying the different types of wood. He worked most of his career in the lumber industry, and in later years he was responsible for grading lumber.  He was also an outstanding wood-worker, and he hand made many different pieces.  I took an interest in learning about the many different types of wood that were used for stock making (and other uses) when I was still a young fellow.  

Currently, I am in the process of refinishing a special handmade wood cabinet that my father built in the early 1960s for his reloading room.  He used it to store his primers and gun powder (in the old 1 lb rectangular tin cans).  It has a 22" wide x 18" deep x 2" White Oak table top mounted on top of an 18" wide x 15" depth x 22" height (internal dimension) box made with 3/4" Redwood planks.  I have lightly sanded the Redwood plank (exterior) and plan to leave it raw (unfinished).  I sanded the oil and solvent stained oak top and will refinish it with Red Walnut oil stain.  It will then go into my man cave and will once again be used to store primers and old tins of IMR gun powder (e.g. 4198, 4350, 3031, & 4064).

Bert