Brian, forgive my ignorance but what are drop points?

they are a little extention to the back of the side panel.

they show in the grade identification picture off the home page

or one the D grades here -http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8701

The Drop Points are the pointed extensions on the Side wood panels of the stock as in this photo ! D Grade and C Graded Guns have these .The Higher Grades are much more elaborate !

I believe they are missing. I will have to wait until tomorow to know for sure, the gun will be delivered on monday. I did not want the hassle of carying it on an airplane and shipped it to myself.
Thank you for the education.

and THEN order a letter :rotf:

I would hope this one would be interesting

Yessir. I'm hoping there is something interesting in the books on this one.:corn:

Paul: It looks like you found another keeper. Thomas

No Thomas, they keep finding me.:whistle:
I'm thinking on selling the VH12 to support all these upper grades.:crying: my wife can't support all the"D's" & "C's" that I'm finding, not to mention all those other manufactures toys out there.:banghead:

Well the mailman just delivered my DH. As Brian thought the stock is missing the drop points. This leads me to believe it has been restocked. There is no SN under the trigger guard.
This is still a beautiful gun and I am eager to try it out.

Great old gun Paul with some really nice engraving (for a change!). A lot of the "stylized" dogs of this SN era came out looking like Pluto and Skeezix; bizarre and frightening in a cartoon caricature sort of way. BTW - absence of a safety is not an automatic validation of a "pigeon gun." There are dozens of smallbore Parkers floating around that were ordered without safeties for a variety of reasons. Never automatically assume that a gun without one is a "pigeon gun." Hallmarks of true pigeon guns built for box bird or columbaire flyer shoots invariably were ordered with long barrels, tight chokes, very straight combs with little variance in drops at comb and/or heel, and in many but not all cases straight grips. (Some believed that the straight grip automatically helped to rotate the elbow upwards, bringing the face into closer and tighter contact with the stock).