20 gauge GHE
 

This is a 20 gauge GHE Remington era with 28" barrels.

Wow! That's a dandy Larry!

Looks like the serial number starts with 241...

That gun has great condition and fabulous wood!





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241 Serial number
 

Yes it does Dean. I think it's a 98-99% gun. Chuck is doing a letter that I hope to get in the next few days. I may drag it along to Las Vegas with me.

Very nice! You're a lucky guy!






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You need to put that one on the table at tha Annual Meeting for the People's Choice Award.





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I sure hope the wrist of that gun has some sort of reinforcement. With figure like that, it is to be like spaghetti.

I would think that crotch grain running straight up through the wrist would make it ultra-strong.
In my experience of splitting firewood these last forty years, crotch grain like that is as tough to split or break across the grain as American Elm is. JMHO





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Crotch grain like that is very soft. The actual grain of that piece of wood is going directly across the stock. Stocks figired like this that i have dealt with in the past have been able to flex the wrist back and forth when the butt is clamped in a vise.

Pieces like this are best used on drawbokt guns.

That is exactly the opposite of my experience.

I think that stock is beautiful and would be proud to own that gun. And I would never concern myself with it being weak in the wrist... Never.






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The number one rule of stock wood layout... straight grain in the wrist.