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Rib looks right to me from what little I can see. Like Dean said the frame is correct for a VR gun. Those side panels are another story though, an added embellishment.
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Yeah, it is right. It just does not have the “V” on the ramp.
It maybe could have been repaired or changed out by Meriden or Remington at some time after original manufacture. Or may be completely original.
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01-08-2021, 09:22 PM
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That is one of my(many) Parker goals...to own a vent rib gun
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01-08-2021, 09:22 PM
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The V on the ramp was limited only to one period of Vent Rib production - the earlier period. The other period was as this one is shown, and as it should be for the Remington produced Parker that it is.
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01-08-2021, 09:30 PM
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I could not recall the details on the V off the top of my head. I just knew they were offered both ways.
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01-09-2021, 11:09 AM
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The very earliest VR guns had the 'V' or groove milled into the stem of the rib before the flat bridge treatment over the doll's head well was "standardized" by Parker. Most all of these very early VR guns were ordered or built for stock as field guns before Parker offered the VR as a catalog option (I think in 1921-22), and a lot of the early ones had VRs added and were offered to established shooters to test market acceptance. I once owned BHE #183562, a fully-optioned trap/pigeon gun with VR, ST and straight grip which dated I believe to 1918. Howard Miller of Miller Single Trigger fame told me that he remembered seeing this gun at the GAH when his father took him there in 1919 or 1920, and he is convinced that the gun belonged to William McCarty, at that time the president of the newly-formed ITA.
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01-09-2021, 12:57 PM
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I can't believe this 1929 CHE was one of the very earliest VR guns made by Parker Bros.
Ser. No. 230760 was the PGCA Raffle Gun in 2004 or was it 2007...? Anyway, it is a factory vent rib Double Trap with all the options. .
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Hi Dean,
FYI, Elmer Keith's 32" BHE ventilated rib double trap is serial #228351 |
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