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Sidelock
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..............with the grain running in another direction, which is a necessity, leave me cold. Caesar Guerini runs an advertisement on Shotgunworld that shows a O/U with drop dead gorgeous streaking in the buttstock, but it has a buttplate made of walnut cut so that the grain runs vertically. I think it looks horrendous.
Am I the only one? Wouldn't your rather they just let the beautiful buttstock streaking continue to the butt, then checker it?
SRH
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I despise those things too, Stan.
JR
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Even if it is a draw bolt gun, there are other ways to deal with that. A checkered insert, ala Dickinson, looks 100% better, IMO.
SRH
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Sidelock
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Wooden butt plates never appealed to me. If it has to be wood then Ebony, or horn or even a nice solid color plastic. If I don't like it I'll replace it.
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Sidelock
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A couple of my Parker Repros have as skeleton of metal around the checkered wood butt of the gun.
I kinda like it.
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Sidelock
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A couple of my Parker Repros have as skeleton of metal around the checkered wood butt of the gun.
I kinda like it.
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3/8” or less are fine imho. Beretta did some, attractive to me.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Sidelock
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For me, there would need to be a stark contrast in color. Perhaps ebony as Jon said... Different strokes I suppose...
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Skeleton buttplates can be beautiful, no doubt. This is the the .410 Dickinson. I find this treatment much less distracting, for a draw bolt gun, than the wooden buttplate on the Guerini. Slightly different color wood in the insert, but certainly not objectionable. But my opinion is only mine, and worth no more nor less than anyone else's.  SRH
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I like a wood butt, but with heel and toe caps of a skeleton steel butt plate. My Atkins has a horn butt plate, which I like too. This is the butt of my 20 Gauge Lindner Daly... 
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Quit your job.
Turn off the TV.
Go outside and play.
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