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No wonder the price is where it is. I could just about cry about the stock.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=105709339

I guess a replica stock by a good stockmaker would cost - what $3500 plus the wood?

Mike

Dave,
Are you sure that stock isn't original? Quite the job on it!
With the Sterling being the lowest grade, I think you could find a much better example for not a lot more money. Though, if you wanted to stock it yourself, you could have a nice gun that fits you. Paying someone to stock it would put it far above it's actual worth.
Chris

I think Chris is right. The stock may be original and shouldn't be replaced. Murphy

that stock is designed to take your mind away from the barrel pitting.

After you get it restocked you could send it to Teague for lining. Would be cheap since there is only one barrel.

Mike

Yup, about $650.00 shipping and handling each way and maybe $1800.00 for the sleeve, (not sleeves). Even Chris would value the gun at at least nine hundred bucks when it's finished.

What a deal!

Mike

Well, it may be the orginal stock, but if it is, it needs a butt transplant for me. The trigger guard appears to me to be altered to fit the pistol grip. I just have these desire for a Baker SBT, that my finacial advisor will permit. I will find one, eventually.

There used to be a Baker SBT at the local gunshows around here. Asking price was $3995, if I remember right. Don't remember it having the "neat customized stock" that this one has though.

Curtis,

That Baker your referring to was tagged as an Olympic. It did have a somewhat "modified" stock.

Ken

Hey Ken, How ya doin'?

You might just be right, it's been a while since I seen it. Saw it several times at the Springdale AR show.

Curtis

Curtis,

That Baker has been to more shows than we have!!!!!!

Invite is still open if your over my way and want to shoot.

Regards,
Ken

You guys are forgetting, that is a trap gun. That is what trap guns are supposed to look like. That is probably an Anton stock which would have cost a pretty penny. Like I mentioned a few days ago, you should have seen the Winchester Model 12 with a 2 inch Moneymaker rib on top that was sold at our club a while back. Now that was strange looking.

I had a SBT restocked. It was a lot less than $3500.

I saw, back when I shot registered birds many M12's with either that Anton style stock with the extreme flared PG-also, and as my squad leader Lyndell Byrd once said-after seeing a M12 with the white plastic Hydro-Coil stock- "That is uglier than home made poop"--I had a Parker SBT many years ago- Morgan Pad- rechoked, release trigger- and no matter how I set the pad I couldn't consistently break angle targets with it- and for 16 yard doubles- well a SBT won't work-I even had a trigger man reverse the release trigger to astd. pull trigger, after the 'smith altered it- the pull weight was not consistent so I traded it-probably shoulda kept it though! Don't shoot clays hardly at all now-I am sure the fine O/U shotguns are more popular nowadays-Most SBT guns I saw were the Ithacas-never saw a Baker or a Fox or a Smith SBT-and then the Japanese Browning BT-99 of course--

Wonder if any of my Win.37 poor mans SBT guns are still out there.

Yes the Win.37 is still out there. There are some gunsmiths that are modifying the daylights out of them, so you wouldn't even recognize it for what it is.

I realize the Baker is a trap gun and that is why I want one. I like my guns to be somewhat as original as possible in configuration.

I started with 37's back in the mid 70'. Crisp light trigger,Moneymaker type rib,ajustable comb (Morgan pad). Sold around 25 of them to the east coast at two hundred a pop and the last few at 300.00.Wish I kept one as clean 37 are getting more spendy.

You should have kept one of those ugly Hydro-coils, Fox. Today they go for a fortune and are rare as hen's teeth.

Ain't that the heck of it- Back when I shot registered targets I saw a few- I love Model 12's, but never bought one with the (ugh) Hydra-Coil stock group!! Now I guess I should have- Back then the "prestige" Trap gun was the Lutjic but I am sort of a "traditions" guy- traded the altered Parker SBT for a 1948 mfg. M12 Pigeon Grade Trap gun-30" but marked Imp. Mod. - always shot Federal paper Champion Trap loads-did you ever read Dave Petzal's write-up about the Model 12 in a 1985 issue of Sporting Classics-he wrote about several M12 Trap guns with over 1 million rounds shot and still "keep on a truckin'" and I believe that. If I had a $1 for every game bird and clay target ever shot with a Model 12 from 1912 to 1963- I could buy and sell Jimmy Buffett's rich uncle Warren!!