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Unread 06-19-2018, 01:50 PM   #1
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Default Parker 10 Ga. Hammer Gun Frame Size

I have a Parker 10 Ga Hammer Gun and have looked through the information on how to find out what I have however the number on the lug that tells the frame size in missing. Was this mark a permanent mark? Thanks
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Hi Larry - you have a Grade 2 from the period in which the Grade 2 hammer guns had about the nicest engraving.

You can determine the frame size by measuring in sixteenths of an inch the distance between firing pin centers - or as Bill Murphy points out, the distance from the edge of a firing pin hole in the breech face to the same edge of the other hole being an easier way to measure it.





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Thanks Dean, I'll check it out.
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What Dean says. Looks like a big frame. I am partial to Grade 2's myself
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It is a heavy gun - I think it would have been a good one for geese and ducks in it's day
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If it's in the 9# range it's probably a 3-frame.





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3 frame is most likely.
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I see what is left of a 3 stamped on the barrel lug.
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I see the 3 also.

Rub some white chalkboard chaulk on the lug and the number will show.
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