Small Frame Butt Pads
 

Does anyone on the Forum know what brand of Pad would have been available in 1928, 1929 for a proper butt treatment for our Parker guns and also would anyone know where a ,Thin 3/8 to 1/2 " Thick ,OO Frame size , correct Period Pad could be found ? I know this sounds confusing ,just couldn't come up with a better way to state it ! Russ

Maybe I can help Larry
 

I have at present a English straight hand buttstock for a sidelock 28 gauge- it has a 1930's G&H no. 3 Silvers red pad with the two plugs to cover the access holes, a perfect fit. If you want the pad for your OO frame gun, I will send it to you- it is 4 & 11/16" length at butt, 5/8" thick at center point with the thin black spacer included and the holes at 3 & 1/4" on center-, you can size it to your gun, if it will fit, we'll "make a deal"- This is not a Galazan repro-- Brad Bachelder believes it is for a Westley Richards 28 gauge sidelock pre-WW2- 26 LPI checking- fine walnut- BUT- someone may have installed a rear sling stud, later removed it and acra-glassed over that small area- seems to me I'd have a better chance of selling the Silvers period plugged pad, as finding a gent with a busted buttstock for a 28 gauge Limey sidelock-- a challenge indeed.. Let me know if you want to pursue this- if it doesn't fit, your only cost is the return shipping to me--:bigbye:

No Shoc pads have 3" hole spacing and small plugs. They are what I have used. Even they may not be small enough for a cut off 00 frame. Hawkins rifle pads are also nice, but scarce.

Francis ,I have sent you a PM . Thank you ; Russ

Russ, I still have a couple of original Hawkins pads in the 3/4" thickness, also have an original No-shoc in the smaller size. They are in the 50.00 price range. email if interested and I can give you the measurements.

Francis you just need to suck it up and have that Limey gun restocked:rolleyes: It sounds like to nice a gun just to lay around crippled.

Oh don't I wish
 

-- the only part of the WR SLE 28 gauge I have is the buttstock--it came in a "package deal' with some M12 stocks and misc. Brad bachelder ID'd for me- now the G&H 3 & 1/2 size red pad is winging its way to Arnold Palmer's hometown in PA--About ten years in another "grab bag" stock deal I ended up with about 3" of the butt section from a 12 Parker- nice wood, wonder why it had been cut- but it had the engraved steel skeleton BP with the 4 original screws- I sold it (the skeleton steel rim and screws) to a gentleman in Wisconsin who was "upgrading" a VH 12 and wanted a steel rim for the checkered butt- that's what got me started in the 'second hand gun parts" enterprise- the wood section from that Parker is a paperweight on my gun work bench- holds blueprints and notes on paper like a champ!!:bigbye::bigbye: