Best authentic pad for CHE 12 ga
 

I’m lucky to have found a beautiful CHE with beavertail and straight stock. Stock may be a replacement as it is 15 1/2” and has a non Parker horn butt plate. My Parker letter states 14 1/4 LOP with no mention of skeleton butt or pad. I need to have it shortened so I can shoot it and probably will opt for a thin pad. Please advise what brand would have been a possibility in 1918 when this one was built.
Thanks, I’m a new member and this is my first post.

Danny

A Silvers pad was by far the most common in that time frame.
I have a 1912 DHE with the original Silvers pad as stated in the research letter.





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Your suspicions about the stock not being original are likely correct. Given the length and the horn plate.
A silvers pad would be correct for nearly anything. And they can be thinned down to be less than the 1” they come in.

Making it a wood checkered butt would be nice too. Or you MAY be able to put an ssbp on it.

Would a classy leather covered pad also be correct?

Doggone right it would!





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A leather covered pad would not really be correct looking for any American gun.

But they're very classy looking.

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And so are checkered cheeks on trojans and V grades.

Your chances of getting a leather covered pad that would satisfy you is about one in fifty. I have two that are perfect, but they are rare birds. Imperfect leather covered pads cost the same as perfect ones. Use a Silver pad and grind it down to the length you prefer. Forget about the leather.

Good points Bill...

However, Abe Chaber did mine and I’m very pleased with it. Never had a problem. If Abe had a problem doing it he certainly didn’t mention it and his price was as quoted.





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