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If you truly have a Best Gun, then its features are traditionally selected/tailored by and for the client at hand. Use the colour you like. It'll be "best" for you.
Personally, I like red... |
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11-14-2024, 10:32 PM
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11-14-2024, 11:10 PM
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You may want to do what I did, when putting a pad on my GH Parker. I called Silvers in England and ordered an Orange and a Red. The lady I talked to was very nice and helpful. Even with postage (it was 15 yrs. ago) the total cost was about the same as I would have paid a dealer here.
When I put each pad next to the wood of the butt stock, the gun told me the Orange pad looked best. I did know that Parker Bros. most often used the Orange, so i was pleased. However. on an English 'Best' I think you might find ether color. A very dark walnut stock might call for a red pad. Best of luck and as always we'd like to see photos when it's on. |
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11-15-2024, 09:07 AM
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I have been using the Griffin and Howe Silver knockoffs for going on forty years. For some reason, all they offered were red Silver pads.
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11-15-2024, 07:35 PM
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Whatever color you select, consider covering it with leather. To me that’s what is most appropriate on a fine English gun.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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11-16-2024, 06:47 AM
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Where to send a gun for a leather covered pad these days? A leather faced pad is a good alternative and you can do it at home with little skill and a bit of care.
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11-16-2024, 07:06 PM
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These leather pads were done by Craig Libhart of Susquehanna Stockworks. He has done a number of them for me and all have been very nicely done.
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That is beautiful work. What pad did he start with and cover?
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