Damascus C Grades

[Bruce Day]

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CH 10 Damascus/12 Bernard
CHE 12 Bernard
CHE 16 Bernard
CHE 20 Damascus

Used for sporting clays and hunting.

[Dave Suponski]

Bruce..Great photos. But i have to ask. Where did you get that four gun display stand?

[Bruce Day]

Dave,

Dick's Wood Products
69424 Lake Street
Union, MI 49130
269 641 5750

I have two of them, both 5 tier, although he will make up to seven tier. Mine are oak and cherry and anything other than oak he charges extra. They have two cross bars with studs and wing nuts so they come apart flat for transport. $60 or so if I remember right. Dick is a retired man and does woodworking out of his garage.

I'm still working on the photo techniques and I know I can do better if I take more time at it. Its an art to do good photos.

[Dave Suponski]

Thanks Bruce,I'll check him out.

[Ed Blake]

What is the barrel length of that staight grip? Great guns. Thanks.

[Bruce Day]

30" An interesting gun. Made in 1904 without a safety. Went back to Parker for addition of a safety, installed a Jostam sponge black/red pad, the 1910 bolt plate. I took off the fossilized pad, kept it and put on a Silvers. The stock numbers to the gun for a grade 4 but the channel indicates grade 3, however, it is all original including the cheek inlets, and has D pattern checkering on the grip. I surmise that the stock was finished in inventory as a grade 3 but when it was to be installed on a grade 4, Parker just added the cheek checkering. The gun was half of a pair sent to Los Angeles on special order. The other half of the order is a matching 16 Bernard and I've unsuccessfully looked for that for many years. 2" drop at heel and 7lbs 10oz for the 12. The books show only a few straight grip Bernards.

[Steve Huffman]

What is the frame size on the CH 10 it looks :shock:

[Bruce Day]

No.2.

[Andrew Thompson]

Nice guns for sure

[David Dwyer]

Bruce
Great C grades Bruce. I found a nice CHE12 Bernard with 6 birds on the floor plate at the Fall SXS. Tom( Froggy) Carter immediatelly talked me out of it though. maybe he will share some picturess.:crying:
David

[David Dwyer]

Bruce
I just ordered a display rack from Dick . Now $70 in oak and in stock.
Thanks David

[Dave Suponski]

David and Bruce...I received mine on Friday..Outstanding gun rack. Thanks for the heads up!

[Bruce Day]

Dick the gun rack maker does a nice job. I think it was Eric Eis who first told me about him. As I mentioned, I bought my first one in oak. The wood is that large grained oak of the Golden Oak era in furniture and he has a local source of native timber. The next one I had him make of tight grained cherry. He can use cherry, walnut, maple, etc, but he then had to procure that wood, takes a little longer and costs more. They are well made, disassemble flat, and you can swap sides so that the guns point left or right. A person can make their own, but for the price Dick charges, you get quality and I would have spent hours and hours on it.