Angel,
Great looking gun and nice stock job by Brian. I shoot checkered butts and skeletal buttplates regularly and the key to keeping them on your shoulder is pitch. If the pitch is wrong even a rubber pad will slip down after the first barrel.

Brian, you did a wonderful job on that gun. The hammer guns are the hardest Parkers to restock because of that darn top tang.

You're right Charlie. Once she's on my shoulder all that matter is the shot.

Angel thats a nice job of restocking. I have had several restocked and never regretted it as now I shoot them because they fit. I have several with the checkered butt & sometimes they will slip a little esp if you use the gun a lot (the Hollywood gun) and may need to have the butt recheckered in the future.

I have a 16ga lifter thats in the 13K serial range and she's short but i use a slip on pad.

I have a VHE 16ga skeet that going to need to be restocked someday and it's good to see Brian's excellent work. Good on you for keeping the work in the PGCA family.

Thanks Rich. I thougth it would be nice to give the business to a fellow PGCA member. When he becomes famous I can brag about having some of his early work:)

Angel,

Thanks for sharing the work that was done on your 16g. This was a great little gun to work on. And that 0 frame is light! This one has the milled out water table, by the way.

The objective that Angel and I came to was to stock the gun in the exact style of the original, just in an approprate length and drop for Angel to shoot. Also, to put on a piece of wood that was approprate for the grade of gun.
The checkered butt was Angel's suggestion when we were talking about what to do for a buttplate. The original steel one on that short stock was not very tall and would have possibly not looked right on a longer stock. Angel figured that if we had to do something different with the buttplate, then lets leave it wood.

I like the checkered butt and have restocked a CHE 20 with one. My current project has heel and toe plates, we will see how that turns out. I thought I'd try something different for a change.

Heel and toe plates.... I like that!!! Make sure to post the pictures when you're done.

Yes. Those are classy!

You guys mean like this?