Gun stock blues

[Bill Crowden]

I bought a 12ga. DH from Cabela's with a cracked stock thinking i could get it repaired at a reasonable cost--wrong. At someones suggestion i contacted Dave Wolf in Waco, Tx. I bought the wood, which had been aged for 6 years, and he did a great job of restocking the gun. I took it Kansas for a pheasant hunt in Nov. and ended up only shooting it 3 times. Again at someones advice i bought Hevi-Shot vintage shells so as to not put to much pressure on my 100 year old gun. I came home from Kansas, with no pheasants, cleaned the gun and put it in a paded gun case unnder the bed. When i pulled it out this morning to do some late season quail the stock was totally broken in half at the wrist. The gun has not been dropped or even scratched and i noted no prooblems with the stock when i cleaned the gun, infact i didn't need to do anything but wipe down sthe stock since it had not even gotten dirty in Kansas. So i now have a beautiful DH with two broken stocks---and that my friends is called the gun stocks blues. Bill