Just Wanted Cry

George "Scott" Davis · 10-26-2021, 06:41 AM

Dear friend has looked for a Dixon round action 12 gauge for several years. Last year he located and purchased "his gun" with a broken stock. Several months later he selected a beautiful piece of wood and shipped the gun to a English trained gunsmith and "waited". The finished gun returned in time for this falls bird season and what a beautiful firearm!!!!!

However 10 shots with RST Lites the stock develops a cracks!!! Crack starts right behind upper tang and runs about 4 inches towards the checkered butt.

I just wanted to cry with one of my best friends.

Gun is off to the English Gunsmith looking for solutions.

PS: As we get "older" losing a hunting season with your "Gun" makes me think/wonder how many more am I going to enjoy.

Stan Hillis · 10-26-2021, 07:15 AM

I sympathize with your friend, George. I have to remind myself occasionally that this is the price we pay for loving/using these old warriors of the field. A new Beretta s/a would serve us faithfully without ever developing a crack, a weak toplever spring, of any other one of the myriad problems associated with our old guns. But, at what cost?

I tell myself that most of my hunting friends and buddies are happy as a pig in the sunshine with automatics or pumps. But then I realize I once was, too..........and, I can never go back. So it is.

mobirdhunter · 10-26-2021, 08:42 AM

[QUOTE=George Davis; PS: As we get "older" losing a hunting season with your "Gun" makes me think/wonder how many more am I going to enjoy.[/QUOTE]

So true, so true. Plan for future hunts, but treat all of your chances to go as if they were your last.

john pulis · 10-30-2021, 07:43 AM

Cracks can be glued and repaired.. Let’s hope that is the case for your friend. Dewy V. repaired one for me that I thought was good for nothing but kindling. Had no problems since.