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CB:
Sit down and make some notes or draw a sketch as well as you can remember where you actually took shots. Go back and take a careful look at those places and you may just get lucky.
It's certainly a better alternative than replacement.
Good luck;
Jim
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Good advice Jim. I think I may do that this weekend. I believe I can retrace my steps and probably should have when it happened. However, I knew my son and dog would be a major distraction to me being able to really focus on trying to find it.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Canvasback,
Go back, look hard & long...it will feel so good if you find it!
But don't you have snow there now?...that will thin the odds.
But even if it isn't found, I'm sure a good wood man will blend it in so as only you would know
Mark Larson does great "artistically Enhanced" grain matching on stock extensions & such..don't know if he does the woodwork though.
Good luck looking
franc
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Franc, no snow here. After a terribly cool and wet Spring right trough to mid August we have had spectacular Fall weather. It was about 70 degrees when it happened.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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I've been lucky finding lost things in the woods and on trails. From the above, Jim and Franc have been lucky, too. If you weren't in alder or copse of young birches and bushes to armpits you may find it.
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Hard to tell from a 2-D photo, but it looks like some of the metal is proud of the wood -meaning a refinishing sometimes in the past. The bolts/screws may not have been properly tightened. Also after the ages, the wood may move from the face or thin oils may have softened the wood allowing more force than desirable to hit the wood causing a chip. If the gun has 2 9/16" chambers, same, same. In any case, bedding can solve many a problem. On the West Coast, Keith Kercher in Bend, Or. can solve your problem.
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