This is from a 1896 Quality 2E L.C. Smith. It has a 7/8" hole drilled and filled with lead, don't know how far it goes into the stock but a Research Letter stated gun left factory weighing 9 lbs. On my postal scale it weighs 8 lbs. 15 ozs. now. It has 30 Finest Damascus barrels which had to be ordered along with the first style ejectors. You can see the duplicator marks.
This is from a 1908 hammer gun that had 3 3/4" holes drilled about 5-6" into the stock. I used one of the holes and made an aluminum plug and bored it out and put a screw cap on it.
You can see that I filled a few holes from other butt plates.
I used #6 shot and now with the set of 32" barrels, ventilated rib and beavertail for-end I use on the gun it balances right at the hinge pin.
