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I am having a gun re-stocked. What would you do, checker the butt, use a period correct maker's butt plate or a "sunburst" recoil pad? The gun is an Ithaca Flues 16 Ga Ejector circa 1913.
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What is your tolerance to recoil? That would drive my decision. Checkering the butt is great but highly susceptible to cracking, moisture and other problems if not done perfectly.
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If a field gun, butt plate.
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I'm not big on checkered butts alone. Seems like a shortcut by makers. Skeleton plate, tabs/clips, full buttplate, or recoil pads are more attractive to me.
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Steve: If authenticity is a factor in your decision, I'd stick with the options that would have been correct for the period and appropriate to the gun ... a reproduction buttplate or pad like Ithaca would have used in 1913. If it was me, and I wanted a checkered butt, I'd buy an English gun that already had one. My two cents. TT
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I think that checkered butts look out of place on lower grade guns. From a use viewpoint I would much rather have a recoil pad like a period sun burst type to keep with the period look.
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I wonder what year the Sunburst pad first came on the scene? To be safe, I think I will get a reproduction hard rubber butt plate.
Thanks for all your replies.
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A Flues 16 is going to need low pressure ammunition. Recoil won't be much of a problem. A recoil pad like the sunburst isn't all that lightweight. Me, I'd find a period hard rubber.
That said, some low grade guns have checkered butts. I don't know if a Flues is one of them.
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If you are going to put it in a gun safe and only take it out occasionally to play "kissing- hug my gun" then, if it is original, I would go with the checkered butt. But if you're an uncoordinated butterfingers like me who is going to take it out and let it slip from your hands and put a nice chip in the end the first time you shoot it, go with the pad or buttplate. 
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I agree with JW. However, if you plan to shoot it much. put a good pad like a Decelerator on it and enjoy it. It won't be a collector's item with a replacement stock, anyway.
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