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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
I personally do not think that many would care. But I am sure some would.
Personally, I feel that the quality of the checkering on DHE repros is one of their poorest executed features. Anything that can be done to improve it some is not really a bad thing.
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Glad to see Brian say that. I’ve never personally seen a repro that had checkering to Parker standards. True, my experience with them is somewhat limited. But I did buy one and was amazed at how poor the checkering was. There were runovers and crooked lines to the extent that I couldn’t fix them. I sanded off the checkering and did it right along with mullered borders. I finished the stock in oil and redid the barrels using the slow rust blue process.
I later sold the gun because I thought it was too heavy for a 20 bore.