C Bernard restoration help needed

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Start (someone wire brushed off the chicken excrement), halfway there (Dawe cleans up), finish (C grade checkering applied).
Courtesy of Chris Dawe.

[Dean Romig]

NICE!!!

[Double Lab]

If the rest of the gun comes out as nice as that forend you will have a true beauty to behold. Can't wait to shoot it so don't spare the coin.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

If the rest of the gun comes out as nice as that forend you will have a true beauty to behold.

Wait till he post some pics of the butt stock. I've never seen prettier grain.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

This is not a post. It is an on-line tribute to Chris Dawe.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

BC= Before Chris
AD= After Dawe

[Ruff Hunter]

Chris, that is an astonishing transformation. I would not have believed it possible without seeing the before and after pics with my own eyes.

But what do you mean by the smell of chicken #*%@ emanating from the wood? Was this gun propped in the corner of a chicken coop for decades for fox control purposes?

[Ed Blake]

This isn't the first gun shown here to come out of a chicken coop. Why did all of the nice ones end up in chicken coops?

[chris dawe]

Yup ,she apparently lived in a chicken coop or some other livestock building for some time ,George would know more...All I know is that when I woke that stink up it was undeniable

[C.O.B.]

Its amazing what you can find under 100 years of dirt and apparently chicken s%&t I know I found a wonderfull piece of wood under 100 years of crap on a GHE 20.

Chris thats some amazing work