1880 Rubber Butt
 

If an order was placed in 1880 for a Parker with a skeleton steel butt plate to have a "rubber butt" installed, what was likely fitted to the gun - a hard rubber butt plate or a soft rubber 'recoil pad'?






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When I have seen this listed or used in the gun world it referred to a "hard rubber butt plate" not a recoil pad.

Dean, I was under the impression that when "Hard Rubber Butt" was used in the records it referred to a DHBP.

Me too Dave, but all the letter says is "install rubber butt".






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Dean, I had a C grade with that request
90681 straight grip, hard rubber butt and it was a DHBP. Jim

Thanks Jim, but the letter only says "rubber butt" and says nothing about "hard".






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Well, The Parker Story tells us that the soft rubber recoil pads didn't come into use on Parkers until the 1890's so I guess we need to presume a hard rubber butt plate was used on this 1880 gun, although the butt plate on the gun now bears no resemblance to the dog's head butt plates of Parker Bros. make.






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Show us a picture.

"Rubber Butt" refers to the hard rubber buttplate. It took the original Research Team a while to figure it out, but that is what we found. Various members of the team misinterpreted the term and insisted on describing it as "RUB HER BUTT".

So Bill, where or when does the adjective "hard" come into play... was it after the introduction of the soft rubber butt, or recoil pad? It would make sense that it happened in that sequence. Why would a DHBP be described as a hard rubber butt if there were no soft rubber butts at the time to differentiate it from.





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