[QUOTE=wayne goerres;222341 There are people who can make that repair disappear
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Yes -if the internal damage is only a clean split - no decay, not busted up
A tale of two guns
- both heavy Parker 12 bores that were likely waterfowlers from birth
neither had a bolt in the stock when I bought them
the first - I took the stock off to refinish and found it had a split in the head - but it was all solid wood- this stock has been de-oiled, stapled and arca-glassed and the head treated with crazy glue. this gun has digested many rounds since, up to and including Kent TM (it has 2 3/4 chambers)
the other - when I got it, the wood around the tang had a slight gap- I took the stock off - and found the insides oil soaked to the point of decay- this one needs a new stock
either of these could have been pinned and shot by the former owner and shot for a while- the first- may never have failed
I think the second would have eventually failed dramatically
my point in this and my earlier post post is - (except for that 10 Dean mentioned and I would love to see how Parker did it) - I assume a bolt means a restock - if you get it cheap and it holds - consider it luck