A similar thing happened at my gun club a few years. A fellow member bumped my Perazzi SC3 off the gunrack and it fell on the grass barrels first and the stock shattered on the bottom of the wooden rack as the stock bounced on it. Steel throughbolt, I had taken that gun around the world and shot many thousands of rounds with it...go figure. (I am sure Bruce would be just as critical of Daniele Perazzi's choice of wood as he is of Parker Bros....) I just threw the pieces in bag and had the thing re-stocked. On the related subject of CH guns with the patent rod, I have a 34" CHE 207,298 a bit later than Chuck's gun with the rod. The stock was cracked completely through the wrist of the pistol grip when I got it from a member here. I just had that one restocked too and put away the original wood...Wood merchants and stockers have to make a living too...
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