Parker would install a skeleton butt on any gun, for a price. A member of my gun club when I was younger had a 12 gauge GHE vent rib skeet with skeleton butt. I didn't know enough to ask him about how he came to have those features on his gun. He probably ordered it new. He was in his eighties in the 1950's. He also had an X Grade Fox trap gun with vent rib. Both of those guns are probably still with his family today. He lived just up the road from me. I guess I should check out his granddaughter. I have a skeleton butt on a GHE that letters. Of course, no one knows what a V Grade skeleton butt looks like, but the one being offered for sale looks about like they should look. To get LDG to look up a gun, you have to know the customer's name. He does not file by serial number.
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