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Originally Posted by xb-60
There are brackets available for Toploaders that enable the shifter mech. to be placed virtually wherever you want fore-and-aft, so did Shelby (or Rem?) just say "b*gger it, nobody else does it this way, so we will"? ....or "wouldn't 1-2 and 3-4 shifts be nice if the action was up and down rather than fore-and-aft"?
I'm just thinking that there must be some logic there that hasn't hit me yet.
Cheers,
Glen
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While there may be many choices of brackets (and locations) available today, I could be wrong, but I suspect the choices available to Shelby at the time were probably far fewer - forcing him to work with what he had.