Well, jOe, personally, I don't want a big beer gut. I'd take my chances with glued stocks before I took my health chances with a "Dunlop". But, hey, if a guy is just going hunting, with an old, well used gun, a repaired stock is fine, and it isn't that big a challenge to get one to go for the long haul. The original stockmakers can and do repair defects in wood on guns that will be sold as new-Mr. T can comment further on that, but, whether you like it or not, there are many, MANY new, very good guns, that have expertly repaired wood on them, from the factory. Wood cuts, wood carves, wood checkers, and, wood glues, and has since before there were guns. People who stock good guns know this fact. People who don't know this fact, don't know all that much about wood, at least where it concerns guns.
Get over it. Just like the rest of us have to start getting over the fact that these old guns we saw at shows, little shops and pawn outfits in the past that used to be $200-400 are going for much more than that today.
Best,
Ted
PS "Prepubescent" means, in a nutshell, Jerry Lee Lewis would approve.
