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Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company make the Galazan red recoil pads, including options in the traditional S. W. Silver & Co. style. I have their thin red pad on a .318 WR and am using one on my Lee Speed style .22LR project. Some histroical trivia - Silvers also supplied campaign...

Another finger saving option I've come accross. Not sure it will be ideal for the oval shape of grip caps, requiring the piece to be unclamped and turned 3 times.

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Thanks Gert - given the small size of the pieces - I'm looking at ways to keep all my fingers intact. I was thinking I would cut to size, drill and countersink hole, then screw into a wooden backing block for routing. I'm wondering how the laser cutter would go cutting buff horn - if have...

@Gert Odendaal Very impressive Gert. I realise this is an older thread now, but I'd appreciate any tips you could share about routing the edge profile on the 'plain' grip caps. I have some suitable buffalo horn pieces here that I'd like to have a try and making grip caps from and would...

^ sorry @rdog no pun intended - my post should say ‘great’ not ‘gray’ ;)

Sounds like a gray field test for the new fixture Richard. (y)

My first ever attempt at a grind to fit pad today. Came up OK.

Buff horn forend tip finally in place tonight. Nothing is ever as quick or easy as Larry Potterfield makes it look :ROFLMAO:, but I somehow got there. I do have some performance anxiety about the shaping job that now awaits me. :rolleyes:

Gert - sounds like a fun project. Looking forward to seeing the progress. Mark

@rdog Richard - a bit of a hike for you - but we didn't forget you! (y)

Thanks Peter, Hard to compete with Noosa. :cool:

Gert, You're probably aware of this book Building Double Rifles on Shotgun Actions by W. Ellis Brown https://bundukipublishing.com/order/books/ Mark

OK - so as it stands @10.75x68 @BlueFlyer @JPbowhunter @pc3 @264 @Tintin @Badboymelvin hopefuls @R eight @PaulT @rifletuner Sing out if I've missed anyone. Mark

Our AH catch up was tagged on to an existing booking I made for ‘random’, non AH mates and I. So not all bookings so far are AH folk - but good nonetheless. ;-) I think we are at about half a dozen AHers