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Also, on a personal note would like to thank you for valuable knowledge, and untiring support for people like me that come on to this page to learn and share information. You always provide valuable and timely content and insight as do many others. I commend and applaud your efforts and commitment to share your love and knowledge to the unknowing and seasoned professionals and experts. Yours and many others on this website that do the same do not go unnoticed and are very appreciated.
Double Ditto!
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Thanks for your kind words gentlemen. But as has been pointed out in the past, I'm not always right. I am still a student of the Parker in every respect but I try to help others out whenever I can.
The patina is all original except for the barrels. They have been very nicely refinished by Brad Bachelder after he did some masterful work on them. I shoot this gun often and it is in fact one of my Parkers that I shoot best. The patina on the wood is about 125 years of mixed grime and oil, though there is no oil soaking anywhere. The butt plate is original - the checkering is original - the case color is original too so it is obvious that it was not abused..... but actually, it was. Read about it in my article "Shot to Destruction" in the Autumn 2015 Issue beginning on page 45. Incidentally Todd, yes those are what we call "lightening cuts" and are done on some of the smaller frame Parkers, both hammer and hammerless guns from the smallest 000-frames, the 00-frames, some of the 0-frame hammer guns but not all of them and there is a possibility of a very few 1-frame hammer guns with lightening cuts... and no, there is nothing on the barrel flats that fit into these grooves. .
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02-27-2018, 09:59 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Dean:
My Grade 2 is hammerless. Why it needed a fishtail I'll never know. Spin
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They were leftover stock from the hammer gun days. Parker Bros. was nothing if they weren't frugal.
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02-27-2018, 10:23 PM | #17 | ||||||
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Need a fishtail, no. But i think they look cool
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I've got two hammer guns that were made before 1885 and NEITHER of them have fishtail levers . I also have an 1891 GH that does have a fishtail . But again I'm not disagreeing with what you said just not totally agreeing YET |
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I dunno I've already got a GH with the fishtail lever and I'm already flush with EH 10's of which none have the fishtail lever but I'm starting to think I need an EH 2 frame with the fishtail lever and perhaps an EH 3 frame also with a fishtail lever
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