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PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:27 pm
by JakeFlyFish
I'm getting ready to tie into this PAC gun for a restock, I'm guessing from the old stock that the bottom grades had American black without much figure? Jerry
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:11 am
by Researcher
Should be stocked with a plain piece of Juglans regia.
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:09 am
by eightbore
That Researcher guy is good!
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:19 pm
by JakeFlyFish
I just ordered a piece. According to excerpt out of the catalog from PAC in McIntosh's book it was stocked with French walnut. Man this thing sure looks like American black but...gonna go with Researcher and the catalog. Jake
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:44 am
by CLAYBORN
Jake,
Man that is exactly how mine would have look if I were to let it go.
Later,
Clay
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:59 pm
by JakeFlyFish
Clay, you mean you restored your before it got to this point? Jerry
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:27 pm
by CLAYBORN
Jerry,
when I got it I noticed some movement in the but stock, checked it out before I shot it, and that was hard to do. Well I'm in the process, long process for me, because I want to do things as right as I can. Might even even get it re-checkerd. Its a shooter because the forearm numbers don't not match the rest of the gun. 1912 on the gun and 1911 on the forearm. 59xxxx on the gun and 57xxxx on the forearm. Looks like a fun project you have with that gun. Can't wait to see the outcome. Someone sure did some repair jobs on it. I wish it could talk. Take care.
Later,
Clay
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:15 pm
by Researcher
Clayborn is talking an A.H. Fox Gun Co. Sterlingworth pin-gun, not a Philadelphia Arms Co. gun.
Re: PAC gun wood type?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:28 am
by CLAYBORN
Yep right your are Researcher, just looked at the gun and to me they looked the same so went off on ignorance, anyway a quick lesson would be appreciated. And then it hit me Parker Arms Company. Duh!!
Later
Clay
Re: PAC gun~ Rotary Bolt?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:41 am
by JakeFlyFish
Being primarily an L.C. Smith freak I didn't realize for a long time that the PAC guns and the pin guns were not the same. My brother who is a Fox freak straightened me out on the subject. He has owned some really rare Foxes through the years but of course didn't hold on to them as when we were young we simpy didn't have the money. Same as some really oddball Smith guns I've had. Now that I could afford to own them, I can't find them!
Question. I've never had a PAC gun apart, does it have a rotary bolt like a Sterlingworth of does it have some other lockup? It has an extension that appears to be for a rotary bolt of some type. Thanks, Jerry