Broken stock

[Paul Harm]

While over to Bachelders to pick up a couple of guns I had him take the chambers of two 10 gauges to 2 7/8. Also took along a stock that had broken into two pieces very clean through the wrist. It just came apart in my hands while shooting some clays. I never saw anything like it. After some discussion, he saw some very, very small lines running from under the top tang down to the bottom to the trigger guard. He said it was insects and had only seen it once before. They had weaken the stock boring down removing the wood. I had the gun about 2 1/2 years and he thought they were in there when I got it. I've got about 20 guns in that small room - hope they didn't spread. Maybe have to fumigate it. Boy if something strange can happen, it'll happen to me.