doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com So who named the Beaver Tail Forend?

Here's an ad introducing the Hunter Arms Ventilated Rib c. 1925



"Manufactured with Beaver tail or small forend..."

The U.S. makers used different designs to keep the heavy BTFEs attached to the hardware.

Hunter Arms Wadsworth Ptd. used a recoil through-lug





Bro. Daryl kindly sent these images of the "Baker Perfect Grip"



Reinforcing lugs and inlet into FE wood





Fox Reinforcing Lugs

Only if Justin Beaver is his son.

One thing for sure they look fat to my eyes. It's a mistake to think they can be grasped like a O/U or Semi Auto fore end. The lucky ones will come off and the unlucky ones will fail either the J-hook spring / joint or the hanger or the rib comes loose. Goes from annoying to crappy day real quick. I just use a leather hand guard and avoid the entire mess if possible.

I've got four S X Ss with beavertails. One is an early A grade Fox, one is a BSS, one is a 20 ga. SKB, and one is a .410. Two of them have been shot a lot, the other two a fair amount. The BSS has been shot by me so much that is is off face, and shimmed. None of the forends have ever fallen off, however.

I don't care for the looks either, but sometimes guns come your way you shouldn't turn down.

Like the 32" Fox A grade





SRH

Parker "Trap Model" forend now available on the double gun

May 1922 Outers' Recreation
https://books.google.com/books?id=9ns7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA436

June 1922 Forest & Stream
https://books.google.com/books?id=00woAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262

Illustration
https://books.google.com/books?id=yJY7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA721

Winchester Model 21 Trap reinforcing lug

Interesting reading. I am just about finished putting a beaver tail for-end on my L.C. Smith hammer gun that now has 32" Armor steel barrels fitted to it. I have been using this gun for trap shooting and wanted a beavertail for it. The wood for was already inletted and had a hole in the end for the recoil rod. I was able to get the banjo escutcheon and roller release from a friend. Luckily Hunter Arms for-end metals have the same dimensions whether a hammer gun, Featherweight, Regular frame and ejector. On the ejector gun it needs two more openings, one for the kickers and the other for the post for the ejector springs.
I had to make the part for the recoil rod that attaches on the end of the for-end. In Brophy's Plans and Specifications, it gives the size needed and it is brazed on. The recoil rod was easy to make, it called for 10-32 threads and so I used 3/16" cold roll steel for it and pressed a 5/16" piece over it and put a screw slot in it.
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