Parker factory recoil pad

[Steven Gray]

What recoil pads was parker using at the factory in 1928 on a vh gun gonna have the gun fitted to me and was wanting to keep it period correct as possible

Thanks, Steven

[Brian Dudley]

By that time most any of the popular vintage pads would be appropriate.

[Drew Hause]

Lots of options by 1928, and modern repros are available
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qxQsLDgpKtKITSGCJZ9H348YOsQL5CeZjjqNnHshpKQ/edit?tab=t.0

Mrs. W.A. Davis at the 1917 GAH with a “Huntley Shock Absorber Pad”, which became the Jostam Sponge Rubber 2-Ply pad after WWI.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vintage-Recoil-Pads/i-DGRkXL9/0/LXcGbxZzWwhbD6V2pTM4xHv56TTvjFWg7r68KwkX3/S/Parker17mrs-w-a-davis-1917-S.jpg (https://drewhause.smugmug.com/Vintage-Recoil-Pads/i-DGRkXL9/A)

[Bill Murphy]

What frame size is your VH?

[Steven Gray]

What frame size is your VH?

0 frame sir

[Bill Murphy]

On an 0 frame gun, I would go for a No Shoc pad. I think Tony has repro No Shoc pads.

[Steven Gray]

On an 0 frame gun, I would go for a No Shoc pad. I think Tony has repro No Shoc pads.
Thank you sir, you referring to Connecticut?? They do have a decent selection of replica pads.

[Dave Noreen]

The most popular pad in the late teens, 1920s & 30s was the JOSTAM ANTI-FLINCH --

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unfortunately, the one popular period pad that hasn't been reproduced. It was the standard pad for the lower grade A.H. Fox guns, numerous J. Stevens models, etc. Finding a NOS JOSTAM ANTI-FLINCH is getting pretty tough!!

CSMC's repro No-Shoc is the large size with 3 1/4" hole spacing and will require quite a bit of grinding to fit an 0-frame stock.

Another choice would be JOSTAM HY-GUN. The patent covering its design was granted Sept. 20, 1927. The HY-GUN repro is also a large size and will require a lot of grinding.

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[Brian Dudley]

I have a few original hy-gun pads on hand in the smaller sizes.

[allen newell]

Connecticut Shotgun has them

[Dave Noreen]

Mrs. W.A. Davis at the 1917 GAH with a “Huntley Shock Absorber Pad”, which became the Jostam Sponge Rubber 2-Ply pad after WWI.



To my eyes that looks like a JOSTAM three-ply.

Drew I have some circumstantial evidence that JOSTAM had a sponge rubber pad by 1916. This undated broadside --

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was in this 1916 post marked envelope --

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[Drew Hause]

Thanks Dave.
The S.A. Huntley patent for the multi-layer sponge-rubber pad was granted April 10, 1917, Patent No. 1,222,291.

Here's a promo for the Huntley pad in Nov. 1917 Outing
https://books.google.com/books?id=V4xQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg

This is the pad in the 1920 Folsom catalog

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vintage-Recoil-Pads/i-jpgJ67x/0/NZ6ZfcXw7rJSpp4RpKfWFC5mZFXjvHQf24hhTWzVT/L/Folsom%20No.%2017%201920%20Huntley%20%26%20Goodric h%20pads-L.jpg (https://drewhause.smugmug.com/Vintage-Recoil-Pads/i-jpgJ67x/A)

[Dave Noreen]

FWIW, by the 1937 JOSTAM catalog the Goodrich pad is part of their line --

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