Buying Question

[Dean Romig]

David, Mr Abraham's forend iron is correct for a BTFE as is the reinforced forend lug on the barrels.

[David Noble]

Well, again I ask, what does the reinforcement screw in the front of the beavertail screw into? All I've ever seen or owned screwed into an extension of the forend iron. I'm not seeing that in Mr. Abraham's pictures, but do in Mr. Stanford's.

[Richard Abraham]

OK, I took it apart for you. I hope you can clearly see the hole through the forend, the hump in the iron, the screw and the comparison between this and the splinter forend I took apart also. You can see the upward curve of the skeet iron as opposed to the flat iron of the splinter.
I don't know what else I can do for you.

[Autumn Daze]

David, Please note the extreme forward end of the forend iron on these two examples. note the distance from the forward most screw. That area is a tapped boss to receive the screw that runs from the tip. This helps seure the iron to the wood on beavertail equipped guns.

[Bill Murphy]

This could have been a gun factory equipped with a beavertail. For anyone to describe this as a factory skeet gun is a bit ridiculous. Del Grego couldn't have had all the facts to make the statement that is claimed. In my opinion, the Del Grego shop converted this gun into a skeet gun and stamped it, like they did many others. The poster got good information on the trapshooters forum and got the same information here. It's not an original skeet gun. Nice gun though. By the way, I'm not clear on the present barrel length. Is it 26" or 28"?

[Mark Callanan]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

This could have been a gun factory equipped with a beavertail. For anyone to describe this as a factory skeet gun is a bit ridiculous. Del Grego couldn't have had all the facts to make the statement that is claimed. In my opinion, the Del Grego shop converted this gun into a skeet gun and stamped it, like they did many others. The poster got good information on the trapshooters forum and got the same information here. It's not an original skeet gun. Nice gun though. By the way, I'm not clear on the present barrel length. Is it 26" or 28"?

Bill

The barrel length is 26" the book says this gun should be 28" thats how this all started

[Mark Callanan]

I want to make sure of something here
Richard who owns this gun and I have talked several time over the last 2-3 weeks about me buying this gun
He has been honest and straight to answere all of my questions as best he could
To try and help he even took his time to ask Mr Del Grego
The reson I have posted questions here is due to my lack of knowledge not my mis trust of Richard
Mark Callanan

[Dean Romig]

I can see it.

Maybe if Mr. Abraham could show us the forend iron at a very slightly different angle we all could see it.

[David Noble]

Dean, looking at the inletting in the wood for the forend iron, there is no provision for the extended iron or a hole evident for the screw to pass through. Are we looking at the same pics on page two of this thread? In the second set of pics Mr. Abraham shows the inletting for the forearm iron ( the picture showing the serial number stamped in the wood), it looks like the inletting for a standard forearm iron and no thru hole.
Am I missing something here? Quick link below.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/attachm...9&d=1360539976

Perhaps pics from a different angle would make it more evident to my feeble old eyes.

[Dean Romig]

Thank for showing that David. I stand corrected. I was looking at the iron only which appears to have the thicker forward section that is necessary to drill and tap for the reinforcing screw. Now that you point out that picture of the wood I agree with you.