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08-20-2019, 06:37 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Not a Parker Bros. gun, but still a very cool rifle! I think I would have to shoot it.
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08-20-2019, 07:07 PM | #4 | ||||||
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What it is, is a Vincent style rifle. Looks to be in decent condition. Suggest you try to find a local shop that specializes in traditional muzzleloading. There are some online resources wheee you can lean more about black powder. Have fun.
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08-20-2019, 08:51 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Col. Gardner's book, American Gunmakers, doesn't list a T.J. Parker, but does list a Thomas Parker in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, in the 1850s.
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08-20-2019, 10:04 PM | #6 | ||||||
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1850's sounds about right for that rifle.
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08-21-2019, 07:57 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Handsome gun.
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08-21-2019, 08:33 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Interesting place to mark it on the muzzle. I am not at all up to snuff on muzzleloading guns. Did other makers mark the muzzles like this?
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08-21-2019, 09:03 AM | #9 | ||||||
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I'm not a muzzle loading rifle expert but I been around them for a long time and I've never seen the maker's mark on the muzzle like that.
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08-21-2019, 09:12 AM | #10 | ||||||
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My sentiments as well .
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