Best authentic pad for CHE 12 ga

[Daniel Hellams]

I’m lucky to have found a beautiful CHE with beavertail and straight stock. Stock may be a replacement as it is 15 1/2” and has a non Parker horn butt plate. My Parker letter states 14 1/4 LOP with no mention of skeleton butt or pad. I need to have it shortened so I can shoot it and probably will opt for a thin pad. Please advise what brand would have been a possibility in 1918 when this one was built.
Thanks, I’m a new member and this is my first post.

Danny

[Dean Romig]

A Silvers pad was by far the most common in that time frame.
I have a 1912 DHE with the original Silvers pad as stated in the research letter.





.

[B. Dudley]

Your suspicions about the stock not being original are likely correct. Given the length and the horn plate.
A silvers pad would be correct for nearly anything. And they can be thinned down to be less than the 1” they come in.

Making it a wood checkered butt would be nice too. Or you MAY be able to put an ssbp on it.

[Travis Sims]

Would a classy leather covered pad also be correct?

[Dean Romig]

Doggone right it would!





.

[B. Dudley]

A leather covered pad would not really be correct looking for any American gun.

[Dean Romig]

But they're very classy looking.

.

[B. Dudley]

And so are checkered cheeks on trojans and V grades.

[Bill Murphy]

Your chances of getting a leather covered pad that would satisfy you is about one in fifty. I have two that are perfect, but they are rare birds. Imperfect leather covered pads cost the same as perfect ones. Use a Silver pad and grind it down to the length you prefer. Forget about the leather.

[Dean Romig]

Good points Bill...

However, Abe Chaber did mine and I’m very pleased with it. Never had a problem. If Abe had a problem doing it he certainly didn’t mention it and his price was as quoted.





.