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I would always pay more for an English stock and as you call it a 1/2 grip over any pistol grip, and in Fox graded guns I always like the Prince of Wales grip over a pistol grip. Maybe its the rareness, or just the improved handling when shooting at game birds in flight. But its just what I like.
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I prefer the straight hand grip too, especially for a fast-handling double trigger gun in the grouse covers.
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The blue book of gun values adds 20% for a straight gripped Parker over a pistol gripped gun.
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Well, there you have it. Rarity trumps preference.
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If straight grips hold more value than pistol grips because of rarity, then logic would dictate that half grips would hold even more value than straight grips, eh?
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I think it depends on just what the gun is. A factory straight grip Fox is a more difficult gun to find. Most Parker skeet guns were straight grip so a skeet gun with a pistol or half grip would be a rarer gun.
My preference has always been for a straight grip gun. Out of all the guns that will go to grouse camp only two will be pistol grip guns.
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I own only one straight grip Parker, and only one “half pistol”. Both a little atypical for type! A “dollar grade” early lifter short ten in straight stock, and a VH 12 bore that has a scattering of additional factory engraving that Dean called doo-dads that wears a factory lettered half pistol. While I MUCH prefer a straight stock for hunting, and particularly for shooting rising/flushing birds, the half pistol/lightning/POW grips are next in line!
I have shot the VH quite a bit, and really like the way it feels. Seems that I have observed very few V or 0 grade guns with half pistols.
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