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02-11-2017, 05:36 PM | #83 | ||||||
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What many collectors and researchers don't realize is the we are not comparing the 000 frame original Parker .410 frame with the 0000 frame Repro frame. The elephant in the room is the OO frame Repro frame, which is the frame that most .410 Repro Parkers are built on. The 0000 frame Repro is nothing like any other Parker frame, even though frames marked 0000 are incorrectly identified as 0000 frames, they are not, they are Repro 00 frames made for the 28 gauge Repro. The Parker Repro was never made on a 000 frame, no, never. The .410 Repro was made either on the 00 frame or the rare and unusual 0000 frame.
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02-11-2017, 05:51 PM | #84 | ||||||
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I think the thing we can take from this is that comparing a 000-Frame Parker .410 to a 0000-Frame Repro is exactly like comparing apples to oranges. Bill said it best though.
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02-11-2017, 05:52 PM | #85 | ||||||
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It's finally time to measure the firing pin separation on the real 0000 frame Repros. I have done it but another measurement would be nice to confirm.
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02-11-2017, 06:01 PM | #86 | ||||||
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I think trying to compare the reproduction to an original Parker is akin to comparing a CSM Fox to a Philly gun. The repro and the CSM guns are both excellent choices BUT there not the original manufacture and therefore not the same.
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02-11-2017, 06:06 PM | #87 | ||||||
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Can anybody state w/fair certainty that the firing pins themselves are exactly the same diameter on all Repro's?
If so, the answer is found by scaling the photo.. |
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02-11-2017, 06:39 PM | #88 | ||||||
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It's finally time to measure the firing pin separation on the real 0000 frame Repros. I have done it but another measurement would be nice. As I recall, it is the same as the original Parker Brothers 000 frame. I may be mistaken.
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02-11-2017, 07:28 PM | #89 | |||||||
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"Finally, the factory started 133 .410s on the tiny 4/0 frame. They completed 33 of these, and that's when production ceased. . . . As for the 100 partially made .410s on the 4/0 frame, Jack Skeuse continues to build as time and experienced gunsmiths permit."--Nick Sisley, Shotgun Sports Magazine Jan/Feb 1996
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02-12-2017, 10:34 AM | #90 | ||||||
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At the time, Sisley's statement was correct. There were more than a few real 0000 frames unfinished at the end of production. Many of these frames were engraved on the aftermarket, some under the direction of the Skeuse family. Although the 000 frame Parkers and the real 0000 frame Repros had similar pin separation (as I recall), the frame treatment and maybe some exterior dimensions were different.
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