Browning 1895

[Dan Cash]

A New Old Stock Browning remake of the the Winchester 1895 came to our home to live. It is 1980s vintage so it is without the modernistical tang safety and super improved rebounding hammer. This -06 is geneerally pretty nice BUT----. Butt plate is the most plain piece of tin I have ever seen on a mid priced rifle and the magazine only holds 4 rounds instead of the five that go into my other 1895 (1900 Winchester). The butt plate I can replace but the magazine??

It looks like the magazine follower has a tab on it which bottoms out to limit capacity. I can take it apart and modivy the follower but, how difficult is it to reassemble the 1895 magazine?

Do any of you folks have experience with and options for this situation?