Just to follow-up on this gun. I took it to Bachelder's a few days ago, and we examined the stock under the trigger guard. I had thought I might get a skeleton butt made for it if the stock appeared to be a replacement, but the serial number stamping will keep this on hold. It seems clear the stock had been worked on, and not all that good a job was done on it. I'm looking forward to seeing what Parker and his craftsmen can do with the stock. Whatever the provenance of this gun, it will be shot and cared for by its current caretaker for the foreseeable future.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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