doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com The USPS strikes again.

Need a butt-plate for a 1901 LC Smith D-Grade Hammergun. The post office folks destroyed mine.



Anybody here happen to have one laying around?

Everything else got here ok, it seems.







The flat-bottomed 1901 Fulton (all the Fulton guns had flat bottoms after 1891) hammer and the 1890 residual (a transitional 1st year gun) "Syracuse" Quality 2 gun.

Shot both today and they are ready for another 100-plus years of service (well, maybe after I get another buttplate).

Damn the post office anyway...where's Elon when you need him?

Well, that sucks. The other side of the coin is that is an OLD buttplate, and, sadly, might have broken in use even if it had survived the trip.

I think Dutchman wood works has a reproduction, modern urethane, will need to be fitted, but, should look great.

Just a suggestion.

Best,
Ted

Looks like a combination of an old, maybe brittle, buttplate and poor packaging to me. Unless a forklift runs over the package it shouldn't be broken that way, if properly packaged to begin with. That photo screams lack of padding to me. JMHO

Stanton: you are correct.

We used to heavily wrap the base of each indiviual gun stock before shipping to insure that we had a claim against the postal folks if there were any problems. Any insurance claim here would futal (they would likely be anyway) because the packaging was simply insufficient. Oh well...

"Old and brittle" seems to be the rule when dealing with all the older things in my life these days, including domestic hammerguns. Fixing this minor issue shouldn't be too big of a deal.

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For several of those, depending on the desired LOP, I have done leather covered pads. Just an idea. What a nice gun!

Hi Lloyd,

If you send me the width (at widest point) and length and screw hole spacing, I may have one.

Harry

No question that J B Weld would put it all back together. But, without painting the whole thing the colors and texture wouldn't match. This coming from someone who buys the stuff in the large size.

I also mess around with boats a lot. I acquired a Tohatsu 40 hp two-stroke about a year ago. They're highly sought after for racing in certain classes (Sport C, for one) because of their awesome weight to horsepower ratio. Since they're no longer sold in the USA I decided to resto one. The rear cowl handle was busted out on a corner, with a piece missing. I repaired it with JBW and shaped everything back to original shape and specs. Easy stuff to use, but matching the texture and color is the real trick. In this particular case I think a replacement of the buttplate is a better option.

Before, and after, with a "dam' made out of blue painter's tape.



After.



Admittedly, this has nothing to do with doubleguns unless I take the boat duck hunting, with a double. But, it is an example of what can be done with plastics/bakelite, etc. and J B Weld.

SXS 40: Thank you Harry.

I'm down in New Mexico fishing, be back later this week.