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September 23, 2025
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Looking for a used red ventilated pad to go on a 1962 m70. Gun currently has a pachmeyer pad, but is not cut down. Hoping to find a used one close enough in dimension to make it correct again. Should look like the below.
January 20, 2023
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I think Connecticut Shotgun Company sells these new. Check their catalog. https://connecticutshotgun.co/winchester-trademark-recoil-pad/
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
September 23, 2025
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I saw, awesome that they are doing so. It is slightly different from the original pad though, and unfortunately the pad is the only thing it will take to make an otherwise nice and original m70 african correct. Hoping to find a used one as I fear any sort of a reproduction will still hold back overall value of the rifle.
July 3, 2020
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It would help to post measurements of the butt of the wood. Remove the buttpad, draw a line from top to bottom straight thru the mounting holes…then horizontal lines thru each screw hole… provide those measurements to help eliminate undersized pads.
November 5, 2014
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Hi Garrett-
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
WACA 9519; Studying Pre-64 Model 70 Winchesters
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