A1 Butt Plate

[sancofw]

My A1 appears to be a very early one. Furniture is pretty nice, but the butt plate looks a little crude, looks like thin flat steel with no markins and straight blade screws with rounded heads, no markings on it. I'm guessing this is correct & original? Want to teach my wife & daughter to shoot using this rifle & I'm afraid it will not be comfortable and snag clothes. Is there a rubber or brass alternative that will work without modifying the wood?

Thanks again!

Forrest

[tigweld]

Here are the various forms of the A1 butt plate.
The early A1,A1E featured a thin rubber/fiber unbreakable butt plate. The "store brand" A1 aka Ranger 34A had a thin steel
butt plate. On the redesigned A1C, A1DL a thicker hard rubber butt plate was used.