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05-11-2019, 02:08 PM | #23 | |||||||
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Coincidentally, I had my fitting with Michael M. It was eye opening, and certainly worth it.
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05-11-2019, 03:04 PM | #24 | ||||||
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Harold some where in your guns is that go to gun that when the bird flushes it comes up and finds the bird and the lead and goes off at the right instant. Seem as though you were not even involved. That is the one,the one that makes you say '' how did that happen''. I hope all of us have that gun, I have 2, A grade Fox 16 and my repro 20. For a hunter those are the one's that are fit to us. The Repro is the one in my avatar after such a day. My sons rarely shoot clay and they hold their own with me in the woods.
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05-11-2019, 04:16 PM | #25 | ||||||
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I had a fitting with Keith Lupton at the Pawling Mountain Club years ago, just to see what the ideal stock measurements were for me. I pasted it in my hunting log book that I use to record my experiences and daily take in Saskatchewan during my annual trips. I haven't done anything else with it and never intended to modify existing stocks or build a new stock to my measurements.
Years ago, I did have one stock bent by a gunsmith in Easton, Md. It cracked. I won't try this again. It was a very early DH that had a setter engraved on the floor plate. The gun was rare in that it was a 70% gun and had never been touched in all the years of its existance. I fixed the crack and lightly checkered over the break area and brushed some patina into the checkering. It's hard to see the fix but I'll never have a stock bent again. In my opinion, its not worth the risk. |
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05-11-2019, 05:41 PM | #26 | ||||||
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Yup, not worth the risk.
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05-11-2019, 08:48 PM | #27 | ||||||
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Some years back, i went up to Covey and Nye in vermont and had Lars fit me. I subsequently had Brad Bachelder restock a 12 ga vhe with 28 inch barrels to my dimensions. The fitting cost $325 and the restock cost $3,500. Can't say my shooting measurably improved. Live and learn.
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05-11-2019, 09:12 PM | #28 | ||||||
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I haven’t had a Parker in my hands that I couldn’t fit myself to it.
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