Frame size
 

I don’t have my copy of TPS handy, are the hammer gun frame sizes equivalent to the hammerless?

I’m thinking about a top lever/fluid steel project.

Yes but to be sure, measure between firing pins center to center

Another question.. Are 1.5 frame top lever guns at all common?

1 1/2 frame guns are very common after about 1900 or so.

All Parker frame sizes are measured primarily by the firing pin spacing and all other frame dimensions follow that primary measurement.

Hammer and hammer less guns don’t necessarily share the secondary measurements but the firing pin spacing always does.





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I’m not sure but I’ve never seen a 1 1/2 frame top lever Hammergun made by Parker

That’s correct Jim. I hope I didn’t give the impression that hammer guns shared the 1 1/2 frame size with the hammer less guns. It is strictly a hammerless frame size.




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No not to me Dean but less informed could misconstrue it that way.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was wondering.. I was thinking that if I could find a grade 3 top lever project with cut or badly pitted barrels, that a lighter 12 with fluid steel barrels would be an interesting project.

“The Editor’s Gun” is just such a Parker. It is a 2-frame top lever hammer gun with a 30” set of Vulcan Steel barrels expertly altered and fitted to it. It was Austin’s favorite clays gun.





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I was thinking a 1.5 frame to keep it on the lighter side, and was hoping for 28” barrels. And 1.5 frame fluid steel barrels seem easy enough to find. Oh well, just a thought.