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I have had wood extensions checkered with the pad left on. A checkering line disguises the joint and any wood mismatch.
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Ed, do you have any pics?
I vaguely recall Mark Larson or his brother doing some interesting and original effects on stocks but I have no idea how to find ten year old pictures.
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I would take it off. A proper pad always looks better than a wood extension in my book. Amen. SRH
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I would also cut off the extension and add a pad. I recently did this on a LC Smith Specialty grade 20 gauge with 32” barrels. It Looks so much nicer. It had a well fitted wood extension but still looked like a wart on such a nice gun. Found and purchased an old stock new Hawkins pad for $35.00 and another $55.00 a local custom gun shop cut off the extension and fitted the pad. At $90.00 it was an easy decision.
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I'd love to see pics of that Smith, GR. I've got a thing for long barreled small bores................heck, I've got a thing for long barreled 12s, too. But, you know what I mean.
I've got a 32" 16 ga. Smith that I dearly love to shoot on crows and doves.
SRH
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If I understand it right, cutting off the spacer and adding a 1" rubber pad would work. Why not cut it off, add a plastic or metal plate that looks right, and use a slip on rubber pad for the correct length? I use to put on 1 or 1 1/2" pads from CS for the correct length. Then found out they were a bit long in the winter. Now I just use leather or rubber slip on pads. I even made up some 1/8" leather spacers that go in the pads to fine tune them for length.
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This is a Specialty Grade FW 16 that had a pad added and was still only 12 1/2" LOP. I'm not a fan of recoil pads, so I found a piece of walnut and attached it with 2 wood screws, no glue, if I decide to take it off no problem. Plus I could not afford to have the stock replaced it would cost more than the gun and then some. While you can see the line, to me it looks better than any recoil pad with a plastic extension. The LOP is now 14 1/4".
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Here you go Stan. I have a VH Parker 20 with 32” barrels. I too love long barrels.
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That is a waaay above average job of matching the wood grain and color, David. With some careful work I believe that joint line could be completely hidden. AnVery few extensions I've ever seen done were that well planned and executed. Any chance that was the original piece that was sawed off, and put back on? But, I'd still have to slip a KickKiller later pad onto it, simply to get it out to at least 14 3/4". GR, thank you for the pic. With two 32" "twenties", I'd say you do have a thing for the long barreled smallbores. What do you use the two guns for? Do you get to give them workouts on doves? SRH
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Stan, that piece of walnut is not what was cut off but a piece that I had laying around. A black tip Sharpie helped with some of the grain.
As to L.C. Smith 16 and 20 gauge guns having 32 in barrels, there weren't many made. A club in California I believe it was the Widgeon Club, where quite a few of the members shot both Parker and Smith's 20 gauge with 32" barrels. Your field grade was one of 220 out of 38,678 made, and Ghostrider's 20 there were 133 made of out 30,924. They are at a premium in the small gauges. There was one 34" barrel made in a 12 gauge but I don't think it has surfaced at least I haven't heard it mentioned. Short story, there is a friend in Louisiana who's uncle market hunted ducks and he shot a Ideal grade 16 with 32" barrels. When this friend asked his uncle how many ducks he shot with it, the uncle said a trunk full. The friend thought he meant a car's trunk but it was a box car full of ducks. The island that they shot from was not too far from a train railway and the train would stop and take the ducks and bring them to Baton Rouge. Gun is still as tight as can be and he has brought it to the Southern SXS and wrote an article that I put into our Journal.
David
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