VH 20 Revival

[Kevin McCormack]

There are not a few Remington era VH grade guns that sport bona fide factory GH wood, and a few GHs that will make you loosen your collar going through Meriden catalogs and auction pictures showing righteous DH factory grade wood; all a product of Remington using up the considerable inventory of Meriden wood gleaned at the 1934 buyout. So it definitely pays to know what you are looking at era and style-wise.

Years ago I bought for pennies on the dollar a DHE 20 ga. straight grip 30 inch gun that had been stocked by Remington at Ilion in what was at least CH and arguably BH figured wood with checkered butt and SFE. Shown to 3 or 4 dealers and half a dozen "bottom feeders" at the Richmond VA gun show, no one would touch it because of the "bogus" stock (must be a restock with high grade wood) and butt (checkered instead of SKBP, standard for a DH). I sold it at the last Sandanona Vintagers years later for nearly 3 times what I paid for it and would never have done so had it not put me into a GHE .410 RK PG SFE 26" DHBP beauty. Caveat Emptor!!