Hash Marks on VHE Beavertail Checkering

[Thomas Baumgardner]

Craig,
I don’t understand. Why would I change the comb on an original stock?
Tom

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Craig Budgeon

Thomas your gun needs the comb flatten/ straightened, the front of the comb @ the wrist needs to be reshaped to duplicate Parker manufacture, the Sunburst pad replaced, a complete refinish, and those hideous scares removed from the BTF. By making replacement wood dowels that closely match the forend wood and milling grooves with a ball endmill and a little Testors enamel you can have a near perfect repair. This is no original idea but rather utilizing the repairs others have employed. I have witnessed plugs in 2 high grade Lefevers becoming lose after stripping the wood. Also Rich Beyer in his L.C. Smith book relates a story of the gunmakers in Fulton presented a gun to a customer that had 10 plugs in it and the customer thought it to be perfect.

Craig, where are you seeing the buttstock to make these recommendations? In the photos I just see the forend and I would not call the two marks "Hidious" and I would not recommend the repair that you suggested, I think Mark Larson would be a much better idea

[Craig Budgeon]

The gun was sold by Carolina Sports and it still be listed on gun international, it was there yesterday. You don't need 20/20 to see that the top of the comb is convex and that the front of the comb has been butchered. I'm also sure it did not leave meridian with a Sunburst pad ( Ithaca). Yes Thomas the stock on your gun is original to the gun and appears to be sound but the positives end there. Mark Larson may make a perfect repair but there are at least 5 gunsmith living within a 2 hour drive of myself that are just as capable.

[Thomas Baumgardner]

Craig,
Thanks for your input. I was aware of the Ithaca pad before the purchase and had ordered a Silvers pad as a replacement. As far as the stock is concerned, it fits me well. Tom

[Craig Budgeon]

Thomas, maybe the best for you to do is to use the gun for a year or two it certainly won't hurt the value of your gun and it maybe lethal on clays or game as is. I tried to buy that gun but was late to the offering. The fact that the gun is not marked skeet in - skeet out on the barrel flats maybe slightly detrimental to its future value both having mod/mod chokes gives you choices. Enjoy! Craig

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Mark Ray

What would be super cool is if a letter on this gun specified two lines forward of the forend checkering parallel to the end of the checkering, left and right.

I can guarantee THAT will never happen.

[TxHuntermn]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

I can guarantee THAT will never happen.

Pure fantasy Brian......I know....but I am the eternal optomist!

[John Davis]

If it fits you and you shoot it well and you like it, then leave it be and enjoy her. Or send it off, spend a bunch of money, not add much value, then get her back a year or so later and finally take her out and enjoy her.

I'm more in to instant gratification these days.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Craig Budgeon

Thomas your gun needs the comb flatten/ straightened, the front of the comb @ the wrist needs to be reshaped to duplicate Parker manufacture, the Sunburst pad replaced, a complete refinish.

Okay, now we need to see pictures of the buttstock please.






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[Thomas Baumgardner]

Though I hunt with 2 parkers with 1 5/8 DAC, I need close to a two inch drop at the comb for a shotgun to fit me just right. That is what this gun has well as one of my 20 gauges.
Here are the pictures. Go to town!
Tom B.