Reproduction forend tragedy, please help me!

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Wow, a very scarce set of barrels. You may be able to sell what's left of your gun for the price of a 12 gauge Repro with 26" barrels. Try listing it on gunsinternational.

Of the 6 12ga. DHE Repros with 28” barrels currently for sale on gunsinternational.com, 4 of them are factory choked IC/M. These were a standard cataloged offering. Having seen many such factory choked 12ga. DHE Repros having 28” barrels through the years I would not claim they were a very scarce set of barrels.

Others have stated that Repro 2-bbl. sets typically were furnished with a single forend, true - unless an extra forend was special ordered. However; all factory 28/.410 bi-gauge 2 & 3-bbl. sets were typically furnished with two forends.

[Jim DiSpagno]

I want to see this young Patriot get his gun back together. Don't sell it or part it out.

[Ron Groves]

In general discussions there is a reference to a complete 12ga forearm on eBay from a day or so ago. SEMPER FI

[Bob Jurewicz]

Could this be made to work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/31752156785...Bk9SR9Kjk9XRZg

Bob Jurewicz

[BRDHNTR]

I don't wear my Viet Nam vet ball cap often as I don't want to bring the attention to myself but I wore it the other day and was pleasantly surprised at the number of thank you for my service received.

[Big D]

I was lucky that I was sent to Korea as a company Commander of an Ammunition depot during the Viet Nam fustercluck. Don't have an army cap, but try to talk to those who do

[edgarspencer]

I transferred from the Navy to the MSC, and we didn't wear a cover because they would just blow overboard. Each trip we delivered close to two million pounds of ordinance to the Army and Marines. Your welcome.

[James Clarke]

I have come to the conclusion that I will hold onto my gun selling is no longer an option, I’d like to look for a 12ga reproduction to acquire to be able to still use my 12. But I’m limited at least for the time being financially. I do however have a model 101 Winchester 28ga 28” barrel field grade skeet gun in very good condition (I bought it new when I graduated from high school) I would be willing to trade if another forum member were interested or to sell but I’ll make those posts in the appropriate forums when I get a chance.

Thank you all for the PM’s and suggestions I greatly appreciate it, losing the forend to this gun has been very hard on me but this too shall pass. If any members still have ideas about a forend from an original Parker being put together and fit I would still love to have one to use the gun in the mean time.

[BRDHNTR]

I served on a destroyer as a sonar tech 3rd class. We spent 7 months off the DMZ and numerous danger close missions off north viet nam. We fired over 27,000 rds of 5 inch during that time and had to re sleeve the barrel linings on all 5 inch guns several times. Ive handled more 5 inch ammo than i care to remember. When I got out I gave all my uniforms away. I controlled and fired all our guns remotely from main battery plot but did spend some time in a gun director after i refused to fire on some watercraft that i believed were fishermen. But that experience did leave me with PTSD. The VA has been terrific in all my continuing interactions.

[B. Dudley]

I want to pass on a piece of advice to the OP here. With all the talk of people wanting to donate parts to you, let me give my thoughts…

It really is best to try and locate a complete forend, either a repro one or an original meriden one. That way all the parts in it are matched to one another. You may still have to do some messing around to get an original forend assembly on the gun, but the amount of work will be WAY less than trying to fit together various parts from various sources and guns. Talk about a major headache.