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[Bassbob]

I have a Sako custom 257 Roberts with a Fajen AAA fancy stock blank and my father's Savage 410 over under has a Fajen wood stock and forearm. It was originally a plastic type stock that my father broke somehow while rabbit hunting.

The shop I worked at bought many stocks from Fajen, the gunsmith that worked there loved working with wood more than metal.

I remember being a little kid and being so excited about getting my shotgun. When dad bought it it had a busted buttstock so I couldn’t use it until it was fixed. At the time my dad had a side business checkering and finishing gunstocks. I remember clearly taking the ride with him out to the Fajen facility in Warsaw. As a kid it seemed like a long ride but in reality it was about 45 miles from our house. They gave us a tour and we picked up my stock. Of course then I had to wait for him to shape it, fit it and finish it. That was a very happy fall for me.

 

[Bassbob]

The stock maker in Missouri could have been Reinhart Fajen Gunstock Company.

Larry Potterfield of Midway bought it in the early 90s.
"It not being possible to “back up”, we closed the plant in October 1998 and sold everything at auction. The Fajen years were over."

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“Larry, you should buy Fajen; it’s for sale.” Those were the words of Marty Fajen, when we met at a sporting clays event in the spring of 1992. On July 15, t...

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I would estimate it was summer of 1979 when I got my stock and my dad had been doing business with Fajen for some time prior to that certainly. So it was definitely pre- Potterfield and CNC machines. Larry probably should have just bought it and let it operate as it always had. They seemed to be able to exist before him.

 

[Sld1959]

Nice collection there Bob, love the warmth, look and class of old polished blued steel and wood, nothing like it. Well done my man.

 

[Sld1959]

That double will definitely cause an intruder discomfort as Lynard Skynard said
.
Well the crowd cleared away
And I began to pray
And the water fell on the floor
And I'm telling you, son
Well, it ain't no fun
Staring straight down a.... big ass set of barrels lol...

 

[Bassbob]

Nice collection there Bob, love the warmth, look and class of old polished blued steel and wood, nothing like it. Well done my man.

All these pictures were taken for identification purposes and if I had more time I would have gotten a better setting and wiped the guns down so my fingerprints weren’t all over them.