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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop
That's good news Bill. I'd probably get the gun to a gunsmith who knows Parkers and have it cleaned.
There is lots of information on Parkers if you go to the PGCA home page and click on the links.
We'd all like to see close up in focus pictures of your guns. Why don't you post the S/N's and maybe we can give you some more basic information.
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Which is exactly what I did when I had a similar problem. The little toggle underneath the barrels at the flats had broken. A smith removed the broken part from another pair of barrels and fixed the gun. He also said the grease inside my gun, an 1896 issue, had turned extremely hard, so when someone forced the barrels open the toggle snapped off. The gun would no longer lock the firing pins back.
Lesson, if an old gun refuses to open when the top lever is activated do not force the issue, rather have a guy who knows Parkers futz with it.
The bores of my gun are like new! It seems that the gun broke decades ago and could not be shot.