I was just looking at the Date Your Gun page for the Auto-5 around the mid-50's. About the time that my father's gun would have been built. I wonder if the "light weight" gun may have had a recoil pad on it? For no other reason than replacing a couple of inches of wood with a couple inches of rubber, semi-cutout at that, would be a quick way of taking a few ounces out and helping tame the recoil of a lighter gun as well. Just an idea.
Tom
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Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the green river
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie hill.
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. -John Prine, Paradise
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