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I just bought my second Parker, a DH 12 ga. from Cabelas for what I thought was a bargain at $1999 with a cracked wrist, assuming I could get the wrist repaired and the stock refinished for around $600 to $700--wrong! The stock is a real mess and is now in the hands of the very able Dick Wolf, who
i learned about from reading this forum.
So now I have a question for this learned group. If I wanted to add a beavertail forend, not nessing with the current splintner forend, where would I turn to find the necessary hardware including that reinforcing rod I saw on this forum? Thanks for your help. Bill

Bill the cost of doing that would be more then the gun is worth and that is if you could find one. Be happy with the way it is.

The forend lug or "loop" on the barrels can pull off even on guns with a splinter forend. I wouldn't chance it by adding a BTFE to a gun that does not have the correct one-piece lug.

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More questions about my "bargain" DH from Cableas. Dave (not Dick ) Wolf called me today with a bad news good news situation concerning the cracked stock. He said that it is indeed unrepairable because of the additional hidden cracks, so now we are into a new stock--I yet to determine the good news part of this situation. He has given me a turn key price of wood, fitting, checkering including something called a mullered (sp) boarder and refinishing of $2,740. I need to know if that's a ballpark amount before I tell him to proceed. Look forward to your input.
P.S.---Hope you guys don't mind questions from beginners because I seem to dream-up new ones every few days. Bill

Bill,Contact Bob Fulton at Stock Fixers I have seen them do some wonderfull work on stocks that for lack of a better word were "Junk" stocks@ruralfree.net or 1-307-436-5561

The price that he quoted you is very reasonalbe for making a stock. As Dave said there is a good chance that your stock can be saved and for a lot less money. Stock Fixers are excellent and I have a guy here in MI that is also very good.. I would look into repairing the original stock first, most smith's do not know how to do this so that is probably the information you are getting, because he doesn't know how. I have seen stocks in five or six pieces put back together and you can not see the fix.

Bob Fulton
 

I actually started this process by sending my stock to Mr. Fulton, he did say he was busy and it was my oversite not to ask just how busy is busy until after I had sent the stock off to WY. Well Mr. Fulton is VERY busy, like an 11 month waiting list and since this is going to be my only shotgun I couldn't wait past hunting season. Dave Wolf is very skilled and a true perfectionist I just don't know that I am ready to invest another $2750 in a gun I already have $2000 in, so I have been looking at every option. One I am considering is bidding on a Turkish Walnut stock from huntersbid.com and then having it machine inlet using my broken stock as a model and then giving that to Mr. Wolf to fit and finish---opinions, thoughts, recommendations for a source to machine inlet or advise.

You can do that but it is very expensive and it is going to take min. of six month and probably a year. So the timing is going to be about the same. There is a man in Michigan that could do the repair work, quite a few members have used him and is turn around time is six weeks to two months. His name is Ehgarb and his phone is 248-446-9927 might not hurt to give him a call

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Thanks Eric I will give him a call. Bill

Parker VH
 

Yet another question--my first Parker was a 12 ga. VH that had some minor pitting on the side plates and a scratch on the bottom plate. I used 800 grit followed by 2000 grit emery cloth plus many hours of work to remove 95% of the pitting and the scratch but now it looks like a nickel or chrome finish which i have learned is not the desired status. Is there a simple way to return the finish the "normal" devoid of case coloring finish; simple is defined as something an unskilled person like myself can pull off. Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S. I think it is so very helpful to have access to a whole list of experts to ask questions to and receive first class advise. Bill