Incidentally there was a fine old gentleman at the Shennendale club years ago by the name of Dick Smith if my memory is correct . He got a very lovely 3200 1-1000 skeet that was NIB or LNIB and sent it to Briley or Kolar and had it tubed . We were all at a skeet shoot somewhere in VA (30 years ago) and Mr. Smith looked at his new gun and noticed the 3200 crack in the tang area and it was a bit more acute then most . He showed it to another Shennendale member that was a decent shotgun smith . They took it apart right then Tom tested it and it split . The following weekend we were at another shoot I asked Dick about his gun and he promptly pulled it from its case and it looked good as new Tom Moore had glued etc and you couldn’t tell it ever cracked !
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