I had to travel to pickup my daughter today. On the way back I stopped in to the Wheeling, West Virginia Cabelas store. On the rack, in the main floor, not in the fine gun room, was a NID 12 in Grade 2. Sale price was $600.00. It was a odd looking cobbled up gun to say the least. The case was 100%, the barrels and all the rest were 99% but the butt was a beater, field grade stock and the fore end had been carved by a beaver with a bad bite. The metal was all perfect but the wood was trash. It look like a almost unfired gun. At first I thought it had been refinished but it is not, all the metal is perfect and no hint of wear and refinish job, even one done well. I ended up with the gun for $550.00 plus tax.

Well I got home and started to look at the gun as I took it apart. All metal parts are from the same gun. The butt is not and the fore end is of course not. My best guess is the the original stock was taken off and used on another gun. Then what ever could be found was put on this gun, years later, just to sell it. Just got done restocking a NID that I bought from Rabbit and find that that wood is going to have to be put on this gun. Fine crotch black walnut, with nice matched figure on both sides should look just perfect on this gun. All and all it was a much nicer ride back with my daughter and a new gun than over to pick her up.

You did well..good eye!

Not a big fan of that engraving period/grade...but would certainly make room for that at that price. Seems I have seen some wood on Eplay from time to time that might work? Not sure about the NID, but I have three Flues, 2 12's and a 16...wood all looks like it would fit at the head and tangs, just some internal clearance issues.

Best,
Mark

Sell it to me at $600, I need the barrels.

My #4 Flues SBT has #6 wood and the neutral stock combined with a shadowline cheekpiece was a bit of a problem for me initially. I bought a standard #4 stock without the cheekpiece on eBay. The top inlet was a bit short on the upper tang and well short of the triggeruard. Real problem was getting stock shoulders tight to the frame and the barbed barrel nut inside the bottom inlet was not in line with the hand bolt. I worked awhile but feel that I will have to glassbed (or fill and rebore) both hand and tang bolt holes. I put the original back on, cranked my right elbow higher, lowered my holdpt. to the back roofedge of the house, and my scores immediately went fom a skulking away on all fours "13" to my usual 18-21. Those long 34" barrels were hiding the target and I needed to get my shoulder pocket maxed inboard. Anyway, it appears easier to "fit" yourself than "refit" a stock which is close but not quite. Sounds like that old field grade NID as a dressmaker's dummy was pretty close for Jon, however.

jack