"V3" coded B grade

[Dean Romig]

Phil, that’s a wonderful gun!

Vulcan Steel being so new Parker Bros. didn’t even have a Vulcan roll stamp for it yet so the top rib legend was engraved... fantastic!
A real piece of Parker history.





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[B. Dudley]

And the same 0 stanp on the barrel flat. Just like the subject gun.

[Randy Roberts]

Since this was your first Parker I am curious if you had any knowledge of the rarity of it with the Vulcan barrels or did you get a pleasant surprise along the way ? Either way it's a great gun and thanks for sharing it. Kinda supports the old saying, never say never. Very educational thread BTW !!

Originally Posted by Phillip Carr

Jeff the wood is actually original. It was so black that you could not make out any figure. This was the very first Parker I ever owned.the refinish of the wood was done locally.
The cost of tuition for “ The Introduction to Parkers 101” on this one was very high.Thats a whole other story I need to share sometime under a new posting.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Bill Holcombe

I would never be in favor of raising bag limits. Certainly not for something as trivial as restoring interest in SxS.

I get your position and appreciate it but it is not trivial what is happening to gun industry. Big believer in proper limits and game management; however bag and creel limits do change rightly and wrongly. Would someone ever push a narrative to eliminate millions of semi automatic hunting guns, but then just say double barrel guns are okay, stranger things have happened like a little thing called Prohibition. Never in my lifetime did I think Marijuana would be legalized in US, guess what.

It would be a slippery slope though for sure and its give and take proposition at best as a compromise. NRA, gun manufacture lobby, hunters collective cry might be the second loudest sound ever noted by mankind behind Krakatoa explosion if it were to happen.

Like I said Pigs might probably fly about then as well. Its just a theory, but how far fetched really is it. Recall most semi-autos shotguns have a magazine that can hold 4 shells but are supposed to be plug limited to only hold 2 rounds when hunting migratory game. It would not be hard for the Fed to just make that regulation change with the quick stroke of a pen and not change bag limits at all and they can do it on a whim calling it a test and it have nothing to do with how a gun is made or what type.

Besides even it were to happen not certain it would help sxs market but only a little, it would probably just mean sales of O/U would increase by a way more exponential factor.

Btw I also have simple rule change that would make game of football safer and eliminate confusing targeting and head lowering penalties. I will refrain as that might be too much to absorb and already off thread topic way more than I should be.