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My 16ga Trojan has a similar dowel which I asked about some time back, here:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3917 I ultimately took it to my dentist who was also a gun enthusiast. He x-rayed it for me; it extends into the stock about 3". No evidence of the hole going in further, nor evidence of any weight, etc. A mystery!
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I had a early lifter once that had 3 holes drilled in the butt under the plate and they were all filled with lead. That explained why it felt so butt heavy being a 28" 1 frame with straight grip.
Likely your plug is either capping a hole that is there for adding weight, or reducing weight. Could have been done at any time.
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Unless a dowel is made of a wood as dense as walnut they should decrease the weight a very small amount. As for moisture making a dowel 'stretch', that is unlikely if it the dowel was properly quarter sawn with the grain parallel to the dowel. The moisture content of wood has very little bearing on shrinkage and swelling parallel to the grain.
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02-04-2015, 02:34 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Not really sure what they were for but these plugged holes were in the back end of a 16 gage CHE I once owned. I always assumed they were for balance as I don't recall a pat. date stamped in the stock.
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I too, once had a 10 ga. Parker hammergun with a 1" hole bored in the center of the buttstock and half-filled with a lead plug then capped with a wood plug.
Larry, the diameter of both of yours are too large for the hickory rod's diameter of about 5/8" |
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02-04-2015, 05:33 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Fascinating stuff - thanks guys !
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02-07-2015, 08:39 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Could some of the mystery holes have been drilled to remove checking in the end of a pc to ensure the crack does not continue opening thus destroying the stock over time?
I would guess that would save many a blank from being deemed unsuitable and unusable. |
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Plus - with Parker's pride in their product, I'd like to think they were not that miserly
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