Stock length

[Rich Anderson]

I prefer a long LOP so for many of my Parkers I use a slip on pad to get the added length. However on a couple of guns this pad is to large. I measured the length of the butt and found a half inch difference. Most of the guns are 5 inches in length but two are only 4 1/2. Did Parker change the factory specified length or could it have been requested? One gun is a 16 on a 1 frame the other a 20 on an 0 frame.

[Bill Murphy]

My butt sizes are all over the map. I have a 12 gauge original stock that is way smaller at the butt than my .410 Skeet.

[edgarspencer]

I believe an 0 frame 20 has an 0 size butt, but an 0 framed 16 has a 1 size butt.

[Rich Anderson]

Edgar this is still a good 1/2 inch shorter in length than any other 0 frame 20 I have. I'll just have to learn to shoot it the way it is or fins a small slip on pad for it.

[Bill Murphy]

Edgar, both sizes of frame and both gauges have either size of stock and butt. My 12 gauge DHE half frame has a zero or less size butt and I have a DHE #1 frame 16 with a zero or less size butt. I had a 28" VH zero frame 16 with a #1 size stock and butt, but it still only weighed six pounds, four ounces.

[edgarspencer]

I just measured an original 0 sized butt plate at 4 13/16", tip to tip.
Bill, I've never seen a 12 bore with an 0 sized butt. That had to be special ordered. Was is mentioned in the order book? I do have a 16 with an 0 sized butt, and also one with a 1 sized butt. I always assumed my 0 sized (0 frame) 16 was either switched with a 20 ga. butt, but I suppose it's possible it was special ordered also. Does you gun with the smaller-than 0 butt have a pad or SSBP?

[Dave Suponski]

I don't think butt sizes were written in stone so to speak. The size selected was all part of the weight/balance equation.

[edgarspencer]

There may have been more latitude in padded butts or skeleton steel butt plates, however there isn't that much border around the hard rubber plates that can be sanded/ground/milled (or whatever) down from the standard molded plates. So are you suggesting that there were others than the ones with a 0, 1, 2 molded into the back side?

[E Robert Fabian]

Rich, Galco has a extra small slip on pad, I have all five from extra small to the extra large for the Ten.