I assume there had been one of those elongated pipe style beads or a sight blinder for cross dominance issues put on the gun at one time? The gunsmith was kind enough to fill them in with a couple small screws to try to hide the holes as easily and effective as possible.
Previous Owner Modifications
Previous Owner Modifications
Curious to see what some of you think these may have been for? These are on the Ithaca 5E Knick I acquired and recently had refinished.
I assume there had been one of those elongated pipe style beads or a sight blinder for cross dominance issues put on the gun at one time? The gunsmith was kind enough to fill them in with a couple small screws to try to hide the holes as easily and effective as possible.
Next I still cannot for the life of me figure out what this threaded hole through the rear of the trigger guard would have been for? I can't picture any kind of device in my time period of trapshooting that would have been made to thread to a trigger guard and/or what purpose it would have served?
And lastly the previous owner had installed a Jenkins recoil pad, not a great pic of the pad. It was the shape of one of those ugly morgan pads albeit it sure fit the shoulder nicely but it had to go to be replaced with a period correct Silvers repro pad.
I assume there had been one of those elongated pipe style beads or a sight blinder for cross dominance issues put on the gun at one time? The gunsmith was kind enough to fill them in with a couple small screws to try to hide the holes as easily and effective as possible.
Next I still cannot for the life of me figure out what this threaded hole through the rear of the trigger guard would have been for? I can't picture any kind of device in my time period of trapshooting that would have been made to thread to a trigger guard and/or what purpose it would have served?
And lastly the previous owner had installed a Jenkins recoil pad, not a great pic of the pad. It was the shape of one of those ugly morgan pads albeit it sure fit the shoulder nicely but it had to go to be replaced with a period correct Silvers repro pad.
Last edited by Canuck on Sat Apr 18, 2026 7:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Previous Owner Modifications
The hole in the rear of the TG may have been to anchor a rubber finger protector such as sometimes seen on double trigger guns to prevent the trigger "biting" the second finger to the trigger finger in recoil. (Usually a result of not gripping the gun firmly enough). Kevin
Re: Previous Owner Modifications
I wondered about that myself? I was not aware they made such a device. I would bet that was what it was for. Thank you!Sporrns wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 7:38 pm The hole in the rear of the TG may have been to anchor a rubber finger protector such as sometimes seen on double trigger guns to prevent the trigger "biting" the second finger to the trigger finger in recoil. (Usually a result of not gripping the gun firmly enough). Kevin