[Austin W Hogan]

Dave; there are some notes in Askins Sr referring to "Hedderly guns" in the same tone that Jack O'Connor spoke of "Hoxie Bullets". A story circulated about 15 years ago that Hedderly blew up a near new A 1S twenty gauge and that Parker Bros refused to repair it or sell him any more guns.
I tried to extract and post my stock dimension table from the DGJ article of a few years ago, but the forum doesn't post excel, and it was too long in Word. Almost all top action exposed hammer guns have 1 7/8 plus dac and 3 1/4 plus dah; it is necessitated by the way the frame is forged and the locks are mounted. The last few D and B grade exposed hammer guns as shown by Mark Conrad and Gary Carmichael at the annual banquet had the frames forged to accomadate "modern" dimensions as live bird guns. There are many lifter guns with 2 1/2 - 2 3/4 dah, and this appears to have been default for the VH when introduced.
An interesting and forgotten aspect of this is that Parker made a surcharge of $5 or $10 for extra drop and this shows on many research letters.
I'll try the stock measurements as a txt file; the cluster of stocks around 3 1/4 dah are the top action guns. The relative number of stocks with the dimension noted above is tabulated
Best, Austin