Taking your Parker to the body shop for repair

[Craig Larter]

I have seen some crazy stock repairs but this one really makes me cry.

[Roundsworth]

Uff Da

[Fishtail]

That's really not so much as a repair as an abomination

[William McClintock]

That does win the coveted and seldom awarded "idiot of the decade" prize.

Many years ago, when I lived in south central PA, there was a story going around the gun lovers informal channels that the Baltimore city cops had recovered an A grade Parker from an armed robber, It had been stolen many years prior and the barrels had been cut down to 18 inches and the stock hacked off behind the wrist. True or false, I dunno.
That idiocy earned my first "idiot of the decade" prize.

Originally Posted by Craig Larter

I have seen some crazy stock repairs but this one really makes me cry.

[Double Lab]

Early 20th century grip swell. My matched pair of H&H Royals have them. Maybe the guy had Lurch size hands.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Looks like someone with OWH potential did it.

[Fishtail]

I've heard that A grade story too except it was a Holland & Holland.

[B. Dudley]

I would love to see the asking price of that gun.

Must be whoever did that was too cheap to buy a bumper buster from CSMC.

[Phil Yearout]

My '72 MGB/GT didn't even have that much Bondo !

[Robert Delk]

I actually have seen a B grade cut down and in an evidence locker in an Iowa town.