1882 10ga. TA Straight Stock 0 Grade

[Jay Oliver]

I couldn’t pass this one up yesterday, though I have been trying to buy nicer Parkers lately. I like straight grip guns and even though it was a grade 0 gun, I felt I had to rescue it. It’s a 10 gauge, 32” Plain Twist barrels. 2 7/8” chambers on a #2 frame weighing 8 ½ pounds. The barrels had cold blue or some type of finish that I slowly removed last night. The stock also looks like it’s covered in a heavy finish as the checkering looks more filled in than worn. I still have some gentle cleaning to do.

Today I shot a mix of black powder and RST shells. The gun shot black powder shells extremely well, I actually think I shot better with black powder than I did with RST’s. I was using my Track of the Wolf brass shells 2 3/4dr. of 2f and 1 1/8oz of shot loaded the traditional way with nitro card, fiber wad, etc…

Overall, the gun seems like it was used but not too abused. The gun is on face and tight, the bores are good with some very minor pitting close to the chambers, certainly nothing to worry about.