Following up on my earlier post regarding my lost beavertail forend SN #91320. A fellow member contacted me and told of a beavertail forend being offered on one of the gun brokerage websites. it was listed for $200. on April 17, 2011, from Florida, where my forend went missing. The fellow asked to see a photograph of my forend, which I sent and he said it looked very similar to the one offered for sale. He asked the seller for the serial number and did not get a reply. Unfortunately he could not go back on his computer to track the seller's email information.
I have been asked the name of the gunsmith who last handled my 2 sets of barrels and placed them in their gun socks, secured them with string and handed them back to me.
Unfortunately i returned the unopened gun socks to my gun safe without looking inside.
The gunsmith is Nelson Wait, at the time he was a tenant at Gator Gun in West Palm Beach. He has since moved to Okeechobee Shooting Sports. The other gunsmith present was Glen Crawford who retained the West Palm Beach location. Both gunsmiths say that the forends were not with the barrels when I brought them in to have the barrel chokes measured. The police have contacted three online gun brokers with the information provided and no record of a Parker beavertail forend has been found. EBAY has been uncooperative and we are still pursuing their records.
I am hoping the Parker owner or the gunsmith who unknowingly purchased my forend will
respect the integrity of my 112 year-old shotgun and return the forend. i will gladly reimburse double whatever the buyers expenses were, with no questions asked.
Contact:
jgerbino@gerbinoandassociates.com (954) 303-0444