I've only bent a few, but one vintage Parker, friend Mark and I bent, went fully 3/4" up at the heel without cracking. It may have had something to do with the oil soaked stock. I don't know. But the grain was right down the line of the wrist and had no figure. It was a semi pistol.



Another Spanish gun, I bent had a slight angle to the grain thru the wrist and it cracked slightly with only 3/8" of bend.