Stock Job

[Double Lab]

Angel,
Great looking gun and nice stock job by Brian. I shoot checkered butts and skeletal buttplates regularly and the key to keeping them on your shoulder is pitch. If the pitch is wrong even a rubber pad will slip down after the first barrel.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

The key to keeping them on your shoulder is pitch. If the pitch is wrong even a rubber pad will slip down after the first barrel.

Pitch will probably help keep the butt from slipping but it must really mess up a nice shooting vest or jacket.. what removes it from your clothing, turpentine?

[Autumn Daze]

Only if you use the wrong pitch....

[C.O.B.]

Dean that one is now mine but it's not the project I referred to.

[CHE]

Brian, you did a wonderful job on that gun. The hammer guns are the hardest Parkers to restock because of that darn top tang.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

You're right Charlie. Once she's on my shoulder all that matter is the shot.

[C.O.B.]

Angel thats a nice job of restocking. I have had several restocked and never regretted it as now I shoot them because they fit. I have several with the checkered butt & sometimes they will slip a little esp if you use the gun a lot (the Hollywood gun) and may need to have the butt recheckered in the future.

I have a 16ga lifter thats in the 13K serial range and she's short but i use a slip on pad.

I have a VHE 16ga skeet that going to need to be restocked someday and it's good to see Brian's excellent work. Good on you for keeping the work in the PGCA family.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

Thanks Rich. I thougth it would be nice to give the business to a fellow PGCA member. When he becomes famous I can brag about having some of his early work

[B. Dudley]

Angel,

Thanks for sharing the work that was done on your 16g. This was a great little gun to work on. And that 0 frame is light! This one has the milled out water table, by the way.

The objective that Angel and I came to was to stock the gun in the exact style of the original, just in an approprate length and drop for Angel to shoot. Also, to put on a piece of wood that was approprate for the grade of gun.
The checkered butt was Angel's suggestion when we were talking about what to do for a buttplate. The original steel one on that short stock was not very tall and would have possibly not looked right on a longer stock. Angel figured that if we had to do something different with the buttplate, then lets leave it wood.

[C.O.B.]

I like the checkered butt and have restocked a CHE 20 with one. My current project has heel and toe plates, we will see how that turns out. I thought I'd try something different for a change.