Correct PH buttplate

[B. Dudley]

There are plates marked "0", "1" and "2". And that roughly corresponds to the frame size of the gun in standard ways of speaking. IE: 0 frame 20g, 1 frame 16g/12g. and 2 frame 12g.

Yes, there are the examples of 0 frame 16g. situation where the standard size 1 plate is used.

Edgar,

In referring to the pages in TPS and the Serialization book that you mention, I am not sure which of the two plates you are mentioning. The one with side profile of dogs head or the one with 3/4 profile of the dogs head. But, I have not seen either of those particular plates on any other guns than larger framed guns. I think you may mean the one pictured in Figure D-11 on pg. 43 of the serialization book. And that plate was used on 3 frame and larger guns.

[edgarspencer]

Brian, I think I'll have to concede the #3 frame issue with the Labrador plate, as I've just discovered a 30" hammer 12 I have is not, as I had always assumed a 2 frame, but a 3 frame.
Can you tell I dont look at the gun very often?

[Bill Murphy]

The smallest butted gun I own, including 28s and .410, is a 12 gauge 1/2 frame gun with a skeleton butt. It would have been equipped with the "puppy logo" #0 buttplate if it were equipped with the "rub her butt".