[Alligator]

I bought this DHE 20 from the "C" store for $2300 right after Christmas with a beautiful piece of wood that had proud wood, tangs, and an epoxy finish. It's just a shooter as the barrels have been sleeved to 20 gage from 16 gage on a #1 frame gun, and the fore-end iron is from a 1936 production AHE. All the numbers match otherwise, and the sleeve job is so good you can't see it except with a strong glass in sunlight. Whoever sleeved it marked the chokes, I cyl/Mod on the barrels ahead of the flats and cut the chambers to 3"
on a Galazan jack knife gauge verified with a machinist scale. Of course, the barrel walls are very thick also so the gun weighs a ton but I plan to use it on clays so I glass-bedded it in the course of trying to save this stick of wood. I checkered it 28 LPI in a pattern similar to what is on the fore-end. It wouldn't probably be worth it if one had to pay someone else to do it but I have been doing stock work for 50 years and it was a good winter project. I figure that I have what I paid in parts if nothing else and the gun works perfectly after I got all the dried white lithium grease out of it. I would rather have this than a well used repro considering the price. Lee