OK, It’s Not Plastic…
…nor is it stainless steel. As I noted below, I just recently purchased a Remington 700 rifle with a stainless-steel barrel and action. A not-cheap Remington 700. And the trigger guard/floorplate assembly looked and felt like plastic.
Cheap plastic.
Well, it’s not. Its some injection-molded pot metal, and it’s pretty ugly. That had to go, so I searched around until I found Williams Firearms, and their Remington 700 Short Action bottom metal. It arrived yesterday. Here’s a comparison – click for the full size images.
Here are closeups of the trigger guards:
And a couple of profile views:
I think it was worth it.
Now off to have all the metal refinished in matte black.