G 16/30 - Page 4

Bruce Day · 01-23-2014, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard Dow

Great find Bruce.

Thanks Dick, but it looks like I have been posting these pictures on the wrong thread so I'll just give up and maybe do a Parker Pages article and let it go at that.

edgarspencer · 01-23-2014, 05:29 PM

we must have been typing at the same time.

My 26" gun , from order book 22, was, according to our overworked PGCA letter writer, ordered on December 8th, 1887, and shipped on August 14th, 1887. Hmmm. Assuming it was the reverse, that's 4 months between order and shipment, but maybe it might have been December 1886, shipped August 1887. I'll have to raise this (delicately) with Mr CB.
Stock book says 6 pounds, 13 ounces, but no mention of 'light weight'.

edgarspencer · 01-23-2014, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Day

it looks like I have been posting these pictures on the wrong thread so I'll just give up and maybe do a Parker Pages article and let it go at that.

Not sure what you mean by that

Holeshot · 01-23-2014, 06:08 PM

54790 is a 14 ga. TL and it has lighting cuts. It was built as a light weight for sure.

edgarspencer · 01-23-2014, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by David Holes

54790 is a 14 ga. TL and it has lighting cuts. It was built as a light weight for sure.

Do you know what frame size it was built on David?

Holeshot · 01-23-2014, 07:15 PM

Edgar, It is a 0 frame with a weight of 3/7

edgarspencer · 01-24-2014, 12:13 AM

Those barrels must have finished at a tad lighter than my 16ga barrels, though a 14 is only a tiny bit larger than a 16. Rare gun for sure. It's too bad it's so difficult to find ammo. I have some, but certainly not enough that I could get to use it as often as I use my 16. What is the total weight of the gun?

Dean Romig · 01-24-2014, 08:15 AM

Bruce, if you're still monitoring this thread, the pictures you posted of the internals certainly indicate a nicely cared for gun... it is exceptionally clean inside. Very nice indeed.

C.O.B. · 01-24-2014, 08:33 AM

Edgar I have a top lever hammergun in 16ga on a #1 frame. If memory serves it's a grade 1 with 32 inch bbls, no lightening cuts.

OH Osthaus · 01-25-2014, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

If memory serves it's a grade 1 with 32 inch bbls, no lightening cuts.

too far down in the pile to dig out and look?