B Grade Lifter Restored
 

Every once in a while a gun crosses my trusty Nikon to which a few photos will not do it justice. After a lengthy stay in Grand Rapids, Brad Bachelder finished restoration of my 1881 B Grade Lifter Action. This restored B Grade deserves more than a few photos!

The B Grade came from Parker Brothers with A Grade wood and engraved breach balls. Its 32” barrels are fine Damascus with .030” constrictions in each. Despite its 9 lb 13 oz it seems very lively in my hands.

These photos are my holiday gift to my fellow Parker guys!

PS: If one clicks on the photos they will open up to fill your screen!
PPS: Of course this is a 10 gauge :)

An album is available at:
http://www.parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=383

Mark;
All I can say is ..... WOW! Great pics and one beautiful gun. Can't wait to see it and fondle it. Give us some history of that beauty.

Wow, that could make anyones Christmas MERRY!! :) Thanks for sharing Mark! :cool:

boy thats a fine piece of gun there.. charlie

Daryl,

Our friend Eric passed it on to me a couple years ago and it promptly went into the restoration que. Patiently I waited until it was restored. That's all I know since I do not have a letter on it.

For future history this B Grade will take some pheasant from a European style tower shoot in a few week. I'm sure that it won't let me down!

Happy holidays,
Mark

Only his hairdresser knows for sure
 

And the collection of old shotshells is a great relish to the photos.
get a letter and share.
Now......
Who did all the fine work?

Very nice, Mark. I hope to have Brad work his magic on one of my 10s. He resurrected some abused barrels for me a few years ago and did a swell job. Cheers!

My bad.
I rereead the post above. I should have guessed Brad anyway!
I can't wait to get back my 27607 from Brad soon.

Very Nice Mark! The breech ball sculpting is pretty unique. Is it a 10 bore?

Brad does beautiful work and your photography does it justice. Picked up my Grade 5, last Friday and it was worth that wait. Hope to take some pictures that will capture Brad's work.