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I think some of the marks are from their rings. I see that many times. Of course these marks would not be jagged like a barb wire fence.
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Sidelock
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I had one looked like it was hung up on a couple nails on a regular basis.....one in front of trigger guard one on forend...
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Alot of it in our area comes from gunnel wear and duck rig wear on the forearms, I have an L.c. Smith 10 ga. with a forend worn throu to the shiny forearm spring from riding the gunnel of a duck boat in the marsh for 50 years...
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Sidelock
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I have a Parker GH that has the wood dished out well below the forend iron with no damage to the iron itself except some burnishing. The only thing that I can think that caused that was constant rubbing on the side of a wooden duck boat while the watermen was paddling or tending to decoys or traps. The buttstock is a somewhat crude replacement. If it took the same kind of use(abuse) as the forend I can see why it needed replacing.
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Nails over the mantle sounds good. The fwd end of lower horns of LAC guns show this damage fairly often in auction photos. Th forend "sawing" marks maybe from boat gunnels.
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Quite a few interesting theories put forth on this. I imagine it could be a combination of different abuses. But those who mentioned seeing forearm wood worn well below the metal, or so worn and dished out that forend iron, springs, or screws are poking through the wood... that's what I'm talking about.
I found it interesting that Daryl never saw hunters in his native Iowa hold down a fence wire with the butt while folks in my area most commonly do just that. Could it be that Iowa hunters are responsible for screwing up forearms while Pennsylvania hunters are the ones who scraped the dog heads off of Parkers?
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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Well I was a Pennsylvania hunter for many of my younger years and we always unloaded our guns and laid them on the other side of the fence before we climbed through. This practice kept us whole so we could enjoy a fried rabbit dinner.
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Well I was a Pennsylvania hunter for many of my younger years and we always unloaded our guns and laid them on the other side of the fence before we climbed through. This practice kept us whole so we could enjoy a fried rabbit dinner. A game warden around here told me about a hunter who "got his foot shot nearly off by his dog". He laid the gun under the fence without unloading it. He crossed the fence in front of the muzzle. The dog was already across the fence, and stepped on the gun. Apparently one toe pushed the cross-slide safety off while another toe on the same paw went inside the trigger guard bow and forced the trigger back causing the gun to fire just as the hunter's foot came down in front of it.
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