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Here are a couple of pics of a Fox Sterlingworth butt, this gun left the factory in April of 1913. As you can see, it is obvious that there is a curve in the wood. The factory letter says the gun left the factory with a 14" LOP and makes no mention that it originally was furnished with a pad. The gun now has a 14 3/8" LOP with the pad, without the pad and with a hard rubber buttplate it would have a 13 5/8" LOP. In your opinion, was the stock cut to have a pad installed?  
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My guess would be that sometime in the last 100 years the gun was shortened and curved to reinstall the original butt plate. Then at a later date the pad was added to get some length back.
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Or the buttstock was replaced. Hows the inletting?
Last edited by Chuck H; 01/22/12 04:33 PM.
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My guess would be that sometime in the last 100 years the gun was shortened and curved to reinstall the original butt plate. Then at a later date the pad was added to get some length back. That makes too much sense! Everyone knows that a curved butt is a telltale that it is original, no? Chuck, it is the original stock, as it is numbered to the gun at the head in Fox fashion. The inletting remains as it came from the factory.
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Easy way to check is take the recoil pad off and see if it has rectangular slots top and bottom where it was held in the duplicator.
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Wood shrinkage 
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WS: I don't know the answer, but why torture yourself regarding a Sterlingworth?? I mean, we aren't talking about a Parker Invincible, right. I hate it too when these midgets cut these stocks, but original 14 inch LOP is pretty darn short. I would set the gun up for myself with some sort of extension and go on. With original LOP at 14 inch I would guess it might or might not be original even with the curve.
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Use black spacers and a new pad to lengthen the pull.
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Nice job on the pad installation. Bobby
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buzz, if Wild Skies has the original letter and says it came with a 14" lop, then it wasn't too short for the person that ordered it.
Maybe it was a half pad, do as I suggested in the first post, if it has the duplicator marks then it is original and since then another recoil pad and spacer were added.
Cutting a curve is no big deal, not eveyone uses a radial arm or mitre saw to cut one.
What was, was and what is, is.
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