Patience and lots of looking paid off....

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

The checkering is not factory work. It is incorrectly recut.

Brian: Thanks. I thought something did not look quite right but who am I to know. Again... Thanks.

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

It ought to be a great gun for doves, Bruce ......... and quail as you described. And you can always open those chokes the easy, non-invasive way with spreaders. They would likely make it into a SK/M choked gun, but patterning would tell for sure.

There are several pads that would look good on it, and give you more LOP, without harming the original dimensions of the wood. I like the period style pads, Hawkins, Jostam, Silvers, etc.

I'm getting a little anxious about my 32" DHE getting back to me for the mid and late upcoming dove seasons. It's off having the triggers tuned and has been gone, along with my Elsie 32" 16 ga., for several months with no word. I don't really expect to hear anything until they're done, but I sure want to see Jim Kelly's name pop up on my cell phone screen!

Hope you enjoy it!

Stan: I was thinking a "thin" Silvers, or Silvers type pad.

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

Yep, your right

You guys have convinced me and at that saved me some bucks. It stays as is. That savings will go towards ammo for it and I may need to add some LOP with a slim pad. Any suggestions for pad ?

Thanks.....

You can fit a black spacer to the butt, and have a protrusion to fill the widow's peak. Then a pad of your choice. No permanent mods that way, and it can be returned to original by turning a couple of screws.
I have seen this done, and the results look good.

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by todd allen

You can fit a black spacer to the butt, and have a protrusion to fill the widow's peak. Then a pad of your choice. No permanent mods that way, and it can be returned to original by turning a couple of screws.
I have seen this done, and the results look good.

Todd: The butt plate is a flat DHBP with no "widows peak" so I think I can just remove it and add a pad.

Thanks

[Stan Hillis]

Bruce, Mark's Born Again Bird Guns sold a "Silvers type" pad that I am using on my AE Fox 30" barreled 16 ga. It has small screw-hole plugs which, IMHO, look much better on a small bore doublegun than the original type Silvers pads with their huge screw hole plugs. It is gently contoured on the face, moreso than a Silvers.

I can't pull up a link to the pads themselves, but a call to Mark would reveal whether or not they're still available. I may be too picky, but with my guns I can be that way. And, I just hate the way a recoil pad with overly large hole plugs looks on a small bore gun. Griffin & Howe also used to have a Silvers type pad with small plugs, but they're no longer available. I'd love to find a few for sale.

https://www.mbabllc.com/contact_us.html

This is what it looks like:

[Pittypatdugan]

I have been using slip
On Beartooth pads on some
Short Parkers. For 25 or so you have several inserts that would be perfect

[Pittypatdugan]

I have been using slip
On Beartooth pads on some
Short Parkers. For 25 or so you have several inserts that would be perfect

[Bruce Hering]

Thanks guys. I'll check them out.

[Stan Hillis]

I also use slip on pads to lengthen some guns' LOP, when there is a recoil pad already on the gun but not long enough for me (34" sleeves). But, I use the leather Kick Killer brand of pads. They add 1/2" and can be removed easily, but I do hate covering up pretty wood in the back end of a buttstock, even for a few hours. They do work, though!