stock styles and gun value
 

It appears to me that English or straight stocked gun brings more than those with pistol grips. What about those with 1/2 grips ? there are many more pistol grip Parker guns than there are straight stocked guns and far fewer 1/2 grip guns than those with straight grips. Does the type of stock have an effect on price or does it just seem like to me? thanks for all input in advance.

There are those who prefer pistol grips and there are those who prefer straight hand stocks. So, value is a matter of the preference of the individual. I guess they call it "subjective".

The fact that straight hand grips and half pistol grips (or round knob) are rarer probably won't figure into value unless the subject gun is a high condition or small bore collector gun.





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I would always pay more for an English stock and as you call it a 1/2 grip over any pistol grip, and in Fox graded guns I always like the Prince of Wales grip over a pistol grip. Maybe its the rareness, or just the improved handling when shooting at game birds in flight. But its just what I like.

I prefer the straight hand grip too, especially for a fast-handling double trigger gun in the grouse covers.





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The blue book of gun values adds 20% for a straight gripped Parker over a pistol gripped gun.

Well, there you have it. Rarity trumps preference.





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If straight grips hold more value than pistol grips because of rarity, then logic would dictate that half grips would hold even more value than straight grips, eh?

I think it depends on just what the gun is. A factory straight grip Fox is a more difficult gun to find. Most Parker skeet guns were straight grip so a skeet gun with a pistol or half grip would be a rarer gun.

My preference has always been for a straight grip gun. Out of all the guns that will go to grouse camp only two will be pistol grip guns.

Well, there’s the logic Greg, but in reality I don’t think that’s the case.





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I own only one straight grip Parker, and only one “half pistol”. Both a little atypical for type! A “dollar grade” early lifter short ten in straight stock, and a VH 12 bore that has a scattering of additional factory engraving that Dean called doo-dads that wears a factory lettered half pistol. While I MUCH prefer a straight stock for hunting, and particularly for shooting rising/flushing birds, the half pistol/lightning/POW grips are next in line!

I have shot the VH quite a bit, and really like the way it feels. Seems that I have observed very few V or 0 grade guns with half pistols.