Originally Posted By: mike campbell
Originally Posted By: L. Brown
Originally Posted By: Flintfan
On a vintage gun...

1. add a rubber recoil pad
2. add a rubber recoil pad
3. add a rubber recoil pad
4. add a rubber recoil pad
5. cut the barrels

Oh, and I'll even add a 6th one

6. add a rubber recoil pad


So what do you do if the stock's too short? And on quite a few vintage doubles, a recoil pad was a factory option: Parker, Elsie, Fox, Iver Johnson. And "period" pads are available.


They're only too short if you intend to shoot them. From what I've seen that's waaaaaay down on the list for most "vintage" gun owners. In fact, shooting isn't even a consideration for many.


Hmmm. Must be one of those practices that varies from the East Coast to the Midwest. Everyone I know that owns vintage guns buys them to shoot . . . assuming they're shootable. Some cheapo trashed guns bought for wall hangers, I suppose. But at least out this way, not many folks buy vintage guns strictly to collect and not shoot them. And the ones that are truly collectible are far fewer in number than the ones that are not collectible but perfectly shootable.