Another item I purchased in the Guyette and Deeter auction was a Westley RIchards SBT. The gun seems to be in excellent condition except that it has no butt plate. It was sold with a slip on leather pad that extends the butt about 1/2". I have looked through a bunch of references as to what it would have been fitted with originally. There seems to be a lot of variation over the years on different features. My gun for instance has the odd reduced forend tip that seems to have appeared at some point and then disappeared again. I want to put something on the gun, but I don't know if something like a horn plate would be appropriate or a period style pad. I am leaning toward a period pad to extend the LOP. Any thoughts from anyone?
