Purdy 20ga
 

Client sent this to me yesterday.He has a 20ga Purdy that is a family heirloom,Grandfathers gun.He said he pulled it out of the safe and this had happened.I am seeing him and the gun today and hopefully get the whole story.

Purdey of London sometimes sent their worst broken stocks to David Trevallion. David apprenticed with Purdey when he was a teenager and worked for them for fifteen years as a stockmaker completing every step of the butt stock and forend to the finished product.

If that one is broken to pieces, make sure your friend finds all of the pieces so it can be put back together again with no evidence of a break.






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Yikes that one makes you sick in the stomach to see. Do gun stocks c rack in half just sitting in a gun safe? I guess anything is possible but what are odds of that. I have seen some old furniture crack like that but along the the grain, that looks like something cross grain. There has to be more to the story than I opened the gun safe and was confronted with a broken stock from a gun just sitting there.

Can't see on the underside of stock by trigger guard tang if there is an impact point or something heavy had to of been laying or pressing against that gun at the wrist to cause that.

The only other plausible explanation are gremlins. Or, London best guns are just light fragile guns with stocks spontaneously busting.:) Earthquakes. If there are kids in that house there needs to be some polygraphs administered.

Years ago had just bought an Isuzu Trooper. Consumer reports came out about how bad they were in rollover testing. After reading the article and seeing the pics I ran to garage to see if it had rolled over and was laying upside down with its tires up in the air looking like a dead bug. Seeing this makes me want to run to gun safe and check my guns.

Bob
I am not sure as to your role in this , but it appears as though it would be an easy fix by a talented craftsman. They are out there----If I can help down the road to recommend, give me a ring---802-885-1152

Allan

Thanks Allan
As I said I will see the gun later today and get some more pictures.I'll probably be in touch as this is a great client and will help as much as I can.Not to mention its a family gun handed down thru 3 generations.
I don't think it looks like a recoil break.

Good luck and I'm sure you will help him find the party to repair it. I know your client is probably aching and agonizing badly over it. What a nasty Halloween scare.

That is a nice family heirloom that I'm sure was well taken care and then to see that happen. I agree at first take that it does not appear to be from recoil. Maybe there was some hidden damage that weakened stock years ago and it finally gave way being kept in a super dry environment? Who knows. It looks like a some sort of a greenstick fracture.

Thank goodness there are some very skilled people out there that can work magic with some of these modern adhesives and repair processes.

BTW tell your client that one should get a Vurp Award.

An over stuffed safe, (I have one of those) those doors are heavy. Gun wedged at top/bottom. it wouldn't take much to pop a weak or partially cracked stock through the wrist if the door impacted on it, even slowly.

There could be a number of reasons for a break such as this. It's related to age and recoil. One contributor may have been using hot-loaded American cartridges intended to function in autoloaders...

Nonetheless, Trevallion is your prime man to fix a 20-bore Purdey stock. Possibly followed by The Stock Doctor.

He does have a rather large collection(stuffed safe).Probably a combination of things leading to the break.
Thanks for all the help and stand by as there will be more later today.

And Brian Board does exceptional stock work too.





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