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Unread 03-11-2020, 07:13 AM   #1
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I have never seen a stock or forend like that come out of the DelGrego shop.

Isn’t that grip referred to as a “Rudy Etchen grip”?





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An Etchen grip is much more radical than this one. Not suggesting that any or this wood ever saw the Parker factory, but there have been a few Parkers built with severely curved pistol grips. They are very rare. This is a wonderful gun and it should not be modified from its present form.
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Dean,
I was close friends with Rudy from 1980 until his passing, having met him in Shreveport, LA on my first sales assignment with Remington. I have handled many of his shotguns with the "Etchen Grip" and this is not one of them. Wish it WAS! The Etchen grip had more radius to it and was not as thin (I know it is hard to tell from the photos). Mr. Murphy noted such.
Rudy had a Model 12 that fit me perfectly, but how was a Remington man supposed to get away with that?

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