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So the Hoffman arrived, the stock break was or I should say the attempted repair, was worse than hoped for. Nice trap buttplate and engraved grip cap, all the metal is excellent, over all a pretty good deal. I'm not sure what will become of this one, I may buy it and re-stock it depending upon what my client decides. Any better pictures on this rifle and the bad stock repair? Interesting rifle too bad on the break.
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That one brought more than I would have guessed. I sold it to a client who was going to re-stock it but he changed his mind. The metal is very nice on it.
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Steve,
Would you care to venture a guess as to what caused the damage? I don't recall ever seeing a stock broken that way, and i have seen quite a few broken stocks. It's hard to believe that Hoffman would use a stock blank with a faulty grain flow through the pistol grip. Was that a factor?
Bill
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I really don't know how that break happened but the grain layout was fine. One of the more bizarre stock breaks I have encountered. Steve
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Wow! For an unengraved gun?! That’s not a whole lot less than I would have expected that gun to bring without a badly broken stock.
Shane Robinson Joplin, MO
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It must have been around 1990 I answered an ad in Shotgun News for a batch of Arms and the Man magazines. The mailing address on them was for L.E. Wilson in Cashmere, WA. I also got all of the American Rifleman 1929-1940 from this (his) estate. The AATM were from 1917-1922. All this stuff has been a godsend for the past thirty years.
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