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11-10-2015, 11:44 PM | #4 | ||||||
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She looks pretty good to me. It appears from the photos your gun never had any checkering. There was an interesting thread started a couple months ago about parkers with no checkering. How much pitting is in the barrels?
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Thanks for the reply Mike. To be honest I really need to give the bores a good cleaning, but I do not see any major pitting at all. This is my first Parker and this is the first one I've seen for sale here locally. The pawn shop I do most of my gun buying and trading with bought a collection, mostly Lc Smiths and this one Parker. Double barrels do not sale good in Jonesboro and he had been sitting on them for a while and every time I go in I looked at them, but at pawn shop prices I was not buying them. Then one day Mr. Cliff said he would sell me a all original very clean bore 12ga Lc Smith Quality 2 and this Parker for 1,650 and I passed then he said 1,450 and I said ok. I'm sure he still made his money too so we were both happy. Both guns need to be checked out and to be tightened up some hopefully in the near future.
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11-11-2015, 08:50 AM | #6 | ||||||
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one thing I notice is that in spite of the amount of honest wear on this gun
the screw slots are nice- used but not abused - if you are right about the bores, it should clean up well
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11-11-2015, 09:39 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Extractors? We don't need no stinking extractors!
For the looseness, take a piece of brass shim or a piece of a beer or soda can and cut it the width of the hinge pin and about a half inch long. wrap it around a pencil to put a curve on it and place it on the hinge pin. Put the barrels and forend on and see it this doesn't take the looseness out of it. |
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11-11-2015, 09:57 AM | #8 | ||||||
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I would like to get it cleaned up and looked over by a good Parker smith and try to find the right ammo for it and shoot some ducks and geese with it this season. I wish I knew of a good gunsmith close to home. I always get nervous shipping a gun somewhere off.
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11-11-2015, 10:02 AM | #9 | ||||||
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I share your concern about shipping guns, although that is what I do most all the time now. There just are not any good gunsmiths within driving distance of here.
Buck Hamlin is in Pevely Missouri and that might be driving distance from you. I have not used him, but he has a great reputation. |
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11-11-2015, 10:05 AM | #10 | ||||||
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seems that someone here once recommended a guy in Georgia who did good double guns work
depending on yours and his location- could be over the line or two states away in any case - dropped of or shipped- getting a gun back from a good smith in time for this season would be a stretch, few of them are sitting around waiting on the next job to come in the door
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