parker #5998

[ed good]

recently obtained this early lifter. it is unusual for two reasons. first is has plain steel barrels. the book says less than 400 were made with plain steel barrels. what is also unusual is the bolting system. instead of a push latch, it has a sliding latch. slide the latch back and the gun opens and vise versa to close the action. have never seen or heard of this before. have you?

[charlie cleveland]

ed is this latch under the bottom of the gun...i have a plain steel barrel parker also thats in mighty good shape but its a lifter gun known also as a t latch gun...if your gun is not a lifter gun then you do have a unusal gun..to my under standing and looking seems like all the plain steel barrel guns were made in 1875...the two guns with these plain steel barrels i seen were both low grade guns...some of them may have been hihger grades but were pobably not... whatga is your gun mine is a 10 ga with 30 inch barrels and i think it is in the 6000 serial range..will have to check to make sure on that... charlie

[ed good]

charlie: it is an under the action lifter type action, but latch slides forward and back instead of lifting up and down. for some pictures, please see gunbroker.com, item #231523735 . thanks for your input. ed

[Robin Lewis]

Interesting Parker. You can see in the pictures that the lifter is shorter than normal and it is knurled to aid sliding rather than lifting. Interesting....

[Dave Suponski]

Yes, Interesting Parker, I see several differences in this gun. I would most certainly obtain a letter.

[Dean Romig]

I think I recall that type of action described briefly in TPS.

[charlie cleveland]

first time ive seen this style of action on a parker...thanks for letting me look.... charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Can anyone provide the TPS reference for that action?

[Dean Romig]

I wonder if Parker Bros. patented it... If they did, it should be listed in the patents in the back of Vol. II