I keep looking at the pictures and wondering why someone would want to re-stock these to begin with? The original stocks appear to still be in their factory configurations and in decent solid condition. It seems to me this would be a monumental waste of money.
Am I missing something here?
Jim
Yeah, I wondered about that also Jim. If I had say $3000 in loose change to spend on a 12 DT Extractor boxlock "Farmer's Gun" (whatever in the Blue Bonnet Blazes that means)- I'd buy a Ithaca NID field or grade 1 for between &750 to say $1250- 30" M&F- and spend the rest on shells and shoot the living blazes out of barn pigeons, crows and starlings with it until it felt like an extension of my hands and eyes- Same rugged boxlock and way less than the M21 pricing- as for the wood, I'd get in touch with the custom gun makers and see if they have clients with M21 12 gauges for restocking- The stocks look A-OK to me!! Oh, I have loads of farmer friends (and by co-incidence, many private farms to hunt that are closed to others- doing welding and fabrication work gratis for farmers does have its dividends)- to them,a "Farmer's Gun" is either an Iver Johnson Champion 12 30" full, or maybe if they felt "in the chips" when they laid their greenbacks on the counter, either a Winchester Model 1897 pumpgun "The Old Cornholer" or even better, the never equaled Winchester Model 12- "The Perfect Repeater"-- the only "two-holers" my farmer friends know are the older outhouses out back--