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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
WHAT!!! And your gun did not blow up, the stock did not fall apart? How can that be??
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While I understand the barrels and actions and gun were originally built to handle such loads, Bruce are you saying that a 100+ year old stock is in as good of condition to handle recoil as it was when it was new?
I am not arguing you on this, I am merely inquiring as you have much more knowledge and experience of this then I do, however, I would think that just as with 100-200 year old wood furniture my family has, it doesn't hurt to treat the wood a little more gently then when it was first made.
If I am mistaken in this belief I welcome the education. However, I imagine there isn't really any way to tell if a stock head will split prior to shooting it and I would just as well shoot a lower recoil shell then have to go to the trouble of getting a parker glass bedded or repairing a split head.
Again, 99% of this is from reading this forum, very little of it is from experience shooting parkers, but I am eager to learn.