Bigger question is why are cracked stocks happening even when the guns were relatively young. Is it frame issue to wood ratio, american walnut material and straight grains, guns being overloaded or dropped, hard use. Hard to say but doesn't seem to be from oil soaked wood. Is it because boxlocks remove too much material. I have seen more cracked or repaired stocks with the 12 gauge then others but that is just eye test are there just as many 16 and 20 gauge gun stocks that are damaged. Here and now I guess it doesn;t matter too much since there are repair and replace options to the funiture, just wondering out loud.
Obviously pinning repair was considered industry best practice at the time instead if not the replacement of stock, which is the best. Hard to argue $1.50 to $13, with $13 being a quarter to third of the value of the gun at time, grade dependent.
I will have to say whoever pinned that gun, that was the best looking pinning job I have ever seen. Heck I think Merkel on some guns has a pin or what looks like a pin on their boxlock guns from day one and doesn't look near that good.
Last edited by Todd Poer; 01-31-2018 at 08:17 AM..
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