When found, it was covered by a fine bloom of red rust that cleaned off without pits. The stock was wrapped with wire and a top tang extension had been welded on and screwed in over the broken stock. It came from a chicken coop in rural Nebraska and actually had feathers in the barrel. The farmer was very pleased to get rid of it for cheap because it was just some rusty old broken gun. He tried to sell it to Cabelas and they didn't want anything to do with it.
There was nothing wrong mechanically with the gun. The skeleton butt was not rusted, as some are when they are left on the floor butt down.
There are just a couple known 20ga hammer D grades.
Some folks would have no interest in a gun like this because the stock has been refinished and it doesn't have high case colors although the gun is otherwise original.
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