New member from AZ
 

Hello everyone! I just acquired a parker shot gun in a little rough shape. Its missing the forend and the right side hammer and the barrel has a pretty bad dent in the end of it. Should be a fun little project. I am wanting to make this a good shooter to take hunting for fun. I am really excited to have found this forum and to see that I'm not the only crazy one excited to take such an old gun out and use it.

David,

These are great guns to shoot and hunt. Once the dent is removed and you find a forend and a good gunsmith checkes it out you should be good to go. Feeding these guns the proper ammunition is not a problem. http://www.rstshells.com/store/p/9-1...Load-Case.aspx These are the shells I would recommend. They are the easy on the gun both in recoiled pressure plus they are death itself.

Keep us posted,
Harry

David,
Welcome to this forum, I joined last year, the members are very helpful. I found a couple of nice side by side shotguns from members in the forum also.

A few more pictures would be helpful, especially a complete picture of the bottom of the breech area, showing all marks, and a picture of the wood and butt area. The 4-8 marking, indicating a pre struck barrel weight of 4 pounds, eight ounces, indicates a heavy gun, most likely safe for shooting.

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I will get a better pic for you soon. I took those before I cleaned it and noticed more markings. I am unsure of the marking on the barrel lug. It has what looks like a J.S. And then a 02 where most others I’ve seen pictures of seem to have a single number there for frame size. I’ll
Post up a pic.

I ran a camera through the bore today and it looks decent for its age, minimal pitting. I also ran an inside micrometer through and discovered it’s a 10ga with an improved cylinder choke. Really excited about that.

I do have a question about the forend. I understand these were all hand fitted so I expect to do some fitting when I finally find one, but will a forend from any of the parkers be a match? Or do I need to find a similar year and gauge size?

A similar year and frame size would be most important. I see by the 02 stamped on the bottom of the rear lug that your gun is a 2 frame size.

And the J.G. Is the mark of James Geary a long-time barrel maker at Parker Bros.

Now that I look at it closer it may be J.S which is the mark of John Stokes who was primarily a lock maker but did other manufacturing jobs with Parker Bros during his tenure.

The two accompanying pictures are from “The Parker Story” by Mullins, Price, parker, Gunther, et al.


.


.

Welcome David, where are you located in AZ. I'm Chris, I'm in the Tempe area. I may be able to help you. Are you thinking about joining? Lots of help and info here to be had!