The "Curse of the Bolt through the Flats". In the first of the Brownells "Gunsmith Kinks" books, one person recommended threading a piece of welding rod and screwing it through the Flats. I have another PH with this travesty, I have no idea yet on how to deal with it. It's not just one, but several rods in various places on the stock.
I have a VH 16 on a 0 frame that has a bolt through the head, otherwise a pretty nice gun. I spoke with DES a few years ago and he suggested new stock cheeks with or without checkered panels. I suppose checkering would make the glue lines completely disappear, but look a bit rich on a VH.
