If I can find it- I did get a letter from Roe Clark-he could only identify it from the measurements as to wall thickness-etc-the barrel weight stamp is faint- but looks like a 4-gun weighs 9 and 1/4 lbs. with 32 inch Chromox Steel barrels-I bought it about 15 years ago from a pawn shop in hastings MI- before the NICS and other paperworked deals-may have been a stolen gun- as the serial numbers had been ground off- and the trigger guard was a replacement- the original PG stock was "re-worked" into a Prince of Wales style (apparently by a platoon of beavers on a hot wine drunk) and a Fox-Savage 311 BE guard (my guess only) was re-hammered to fit- the original forearm may have been a splinter- as when you remove the "non-original" beavertail, you can see the blueing wear on the barrels in that area- the beavertail is not checkered, was cut by someone who used to use an axe to carve Eastern Shore duck decoys near Crisfield MD maybe-and never learned to use a rasp or draw file- finished with a Tru-Oil that wasn't true-and the stock had been cut off to a LOP originally at about 13 1/2" to a crappy Sunburst pad- fortunately, they followed the pitch line when they "bandsawed" it- and I have seen Sterlingworths with better wood grain and checkering- but the condition- and the dealer's not knowing that the stamps "Barrels Not Guaranteed" meant pattern %- not proof against rupturing- helped me "knock down the price" from $800 (plus 4% State sales tax) to $650 Out The Door- so it is not a pristine HE-but I spliced on a walnut extension and fitted a Pachmayr Olde English solid pad, refinished the buttstock and recut the 18 lpi checkering, and redressed, and refinished the forearm- but didn't attempt to checker it- I can do a "re-cut" of existing checkering-but am not a checkering expert- sent the gun to Jack Rowe in Enid OK-he stripped and cleaned the action and re-choked the almost 11 gauge barrels for steel shot-another friend with a much better HE- believe the serial number of his nice old "duck dumper" is in the 31600 range- I can faintly make out what looks like 31088 or 31033- not sure- on the forearm iron- where the grinder left some traces-I never saw the original splinter forearm, which would have had the serial number on it-I find the letter in my "odds and ends" I'll post it here-heard Mr. Clark passed on-is that correct- Some day- if I win the "big One" I'll ask Dewey VickNair to refinsih and restock this old war horse for me-like to have a $5 for every mallard and Canada it has dropped- RWTF..
