Research letters
 

How long does it usually take to get a research letter back? Just an estimate. I put in for one this morning and didn't know if I should expect something back in a week or two, or a month or so.
Thanks in advance.

Usually a week or so, depending on how busy Chuck is.





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That's great. Thank you!

What Dean said. If you go a month, it means it got lost in the mail

It's surprisingly fast when you consider what's involved. Chuck is amazing.

John, check your e-mail. Quite often if Mary sends me the request for a letter in the morning, the letter will be in the mail the same day but all bets are off when the Post Office is involved.

Chuck, thank you for the very quick reply. I now have to figure out who S.A. Tucker was and what the special S.R. Butt would have been when he ordered it.

Tucker was the #2 salesman for Parker Brothers and S.R. Butt is probably a solid rubber butt, but it isn't the terminology normally used. Maybe we will learn something here when we see a picture of your gun's butt.

S.R. Butt would be an unfortunate name, but slightly above U.R. Butt.

That would make sense. The gun now wears a ventilated recoil pad. That most likely replaced the original. When I get the gun I will definitely post some pictures. Thanks for everyone's help.

I put in the letter exactly what the order book says (use his S.R. Butt). It could stand for solid rubber butt or Silvers rubber butt. Also interesting is that the order book has written in pencil P.G. when the rest of the order is in ink. The order books always show P.G. for grip type, never C.P.G. so you don't know if the grip type was capped or a round grip from the order book entry. The stock books do tell you if it's a C.P.G. or just pistol grip but in this case, that box is blank so I just put in the letter that it's a pistol grip. I'm only supposed to put in the letter what the records reflect, not guess or go by what the gun currently has.

That's very interesting. According to the seller the stock dimensions on the gun match the specs you gave me in the letter nearly exactly. I wish it had mentioned something about the safety, or lack of one as it just has the little filler plate where the safety was. If these old guns could only talk......