I hate to say it, but all the guns with a screw look like sh!!. The stock can be clamped shut, and a headless screw like a 4/40 be installed with glue or now a days epoxy on it. It doesn't go all the way through so only one side is showing. If it's set down in a bit, some wood or epoxy can be put over it. With a little die and scratching one has trouble even seeing the repair. It can even sometimes be done where the wood goes up in the action so nothing shows. JMHO. I even had a 1894 Remington someone had done like this and I never saw it for two years, and I'm only half blind.

My grandfathers and dads 16 vh had a brass pin through the head. No pictures of it though as it had to be restocked. Had DelGrego do it about 8 yrs ago and the stock waz in such bad shape i did nit keep it. I think though that my dad said that parker put it in

my old 8 ga i got from mills has more stock fixings than any gun i ve ever seen...first it had nails drove in it then a solid sheet of copper around it with nails thru the copper plate then someone put wrapped copper wire around the wrist area and really done well...then they soilered it all to gether with lead....then i added a water hose clamp...all still holding welland still shooting.....if they were giving out first places for the worst stock on any parker this old 8 would win hands down...charlie

And that custom raised flat rib would win a prize for ingenuity!!





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dean you are right on its a piece of 1/2 inch iron with lots of siver soilder under it....charlie

I just happen to have a few pics of the gun Charlie.


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Charlie's gun proves that these guns were made to be shot and to put meat on the table. And his gun obviously has done a whole lot of both. Boy if it could talk!

thanks for the pictures dean...this old gal has seen rough times but shell still shoot...the hammers cock and hold good as new ones all i done was clean them...this shows how well a parker was made... charlie

Now THAT is a Smoke Pole!!

Here's an AE Fox circa 1918. Ivory perhaps or Pearl or whatever. No idea who might have done it. It is the original stock.

https://i.imgur.com/RrLToxg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qqo17RQ.jpg