Just got finished putting the pad on my K-32 !

I suspect down the road if I can shoot the gun well I'll refinish the stock and correct the couple small nicks I don't care for !

But before that I want to send the gun to Briley and have them install their "Thinline" flush choke tubes and a set of sub gauge tubes !

Here's the gun with the new Kick Eez pad installed . LOP is 13 15/16" .

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I was at Danny Pattons shop yesterday as I planned to swap out the stock and forened for a set he had . But after we removed my stock we found that none of his later K-32 or K-80 stocks would fit my reciever without some slight inletting . In the past I'd never seen that . All the K-80 and K-32 stuff I had tried to use on the K-32 I used to have slipped right on . Well I think one K-80 unsingle trap barrel needed to be fit to my old reciever , but I don't know how many other K-80 and K-32 barrels and stocks slipped right on that old gun . But that isn't the case with this new to me gun !

What gunsmith do you use , Pylinski , the guy in Jersey or Allem ?

I go to Ottsville, but not to have a stock fitted.

I've driven past the shop in Ottsville more then 50 times but never stopped . Was always on my way with friends from Doylestown to the Poconos for a weekend of drinking etc !

I use Earnest Marlette in Winston Salem N.C. 1-336-456-1818. Some times it takes a while it get in touch with him but is very good and has all the parts. Carvel

I sent him an Aya O/U last summer to do some work on for a customer . Talked with him on the phone a couple times he seemed like a decent fellow .

Most of the guys I shoot skeet with use him and have had good luck. The only issue I have ever had has been some times it has been hard to get in touch with him. Carvel

I own a Krieghoff K32 (no.1761) that I bought it in 1962 as I remember. It is a skeet gun and I can't even estimate how many zillion shells have gone thru it. I shot it at every thing (living and inanimate) until I started back with family Parkers for hunting. I have a Rem 32 TC also and have mistakenly managed to interchange fore ends from time to time. Weird feeling when you realize it. The old Rem 32 is pretty tired (1 receiver- 4 sets of barrels) but she answers the bell. The K32 appears indestructible. Both are among the best.

I have an old friend I shot skeet with about 30 years ago that was big on Remington 32's for awhile . I think he still has two or three .
I think it was about 2009 he brought a pair of them in the shop in boxes as they were all apart . Anyway he wanted my gunsmith buddy to reassemble them and sell or reblue refinish and sell . I told him I'd be interested and bought them both , put them back together reblued refinished etc . Both were skeet 32's one without a rib and the other with a solid rib . I shot the solid rib gun for 2 or 3 years and eventually sold it back to my gunsmith buddy and that's his dove gun . The other I sold to a friend as well , I pretty much doubled my money of that pair but I wish I still had the solid rib gun !

Oh BTW my K-32 is #1144 and the barrels are marked for February of 1962 .

wasn't Damon-Petrik the inspiration for C.C. Loomis when he designed the Model 32?

and didn't he first use the design for the valmet?