Checkered Butts on High Grades

[Austin W Hogan]

Larry; The DHBP is sometimes noted as the "rubber butt" and the 1899(?) catalog refers to the dhbp as the rubber butt.
I am beginning to take it to mean "no butt plate or pad", but the fact that pull, drop and sometimes pitch and cast are specified for these guns means that the end of the stock had to be finished to those measurements.
I think we can eliminate the idea that the buyer wanted to save the pad fitting surcharge; the dimensions could not be given without quoting pad thickness.

Best, Austin