I bought a neat 16 DH from an elderly gentleman in Maine. The gun had been found in the back of a closet in an older house and it looked like to. The wood had a coat I grime and the metal had gone brown. It needed to be cleaned up, not restored. The only real wear to the stock was on the forend, just forward of the knuckle where the checkering was completely worn off. So, I ask a fellow to recut the checkering. A year or so later I was carrying the gun and I looked down and realized why the gun was so worn at that spot. The gentleman who ha carried the gun for decades wedding ring was responsible for that wear and I immediately Reg regretted having had the checkering recut. Never again will I mess with something that doesn’t absolutely need to be messed with.
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