Not the first grade 2 with an SSBP that I have seen. It is the second. An oddity for sure.

I own a Grade 2 with skeleton butt and know of others. A PGCA letter may give some clues about this great gun.

John, yours is another one of those P Laminated Steel barreled Grade 2 guns.

Very unusual that it has a skeleton steel butt plate, but as others have said, others are known to exist.

Here's a Grade-0 No. 10165 that I've shown before, with some very unusual features including a SSBP. Note, there is no checkering at all... even on the butt within the SSBP.





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But they sculpted the bolsters... Interesting.

That's just one of the unusual features....

It looks like it has like 4" of drop.

Austin's had easily the same amount of drop but it was even more pronounced, being a straight grip lifter. His was also a 20 ga. on the same diminutive frame size... 15/16" between strikers.