Parker Bro's 10 gauge brass shell

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

Came across a Parker Bro's reproduction brass 10 gauge case in a catalog this week that is made for ". . . 2 7/8" or longer chambers. Also made in the 2 5/8" length for earlier 10 gauge guns. This is a thin wall case which uses a 9 gauge wad for better compression".

The $10 catalog is from Track of the Wolf in MN. Mail order only. The new catalog has 432 pages of stuff.

[Bill Murphy]

What's next on the fake Parker stuff horizon? Maybe a repro of my Model 900 Parker coffee grinder will be shipped in from Turkey.

[OH Osthaus]

John

you can order from Track on line, I've done it for years- and save the catalog fees,

BUT if you are into building muzzleloaders -their catalog is a fantastic reference tool, they print the castings full size - buttplates, trigger guards ramrod pipe and so on.

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

Bill - The maker of the fake Parker brass shells obviously wants to cash in on something that has the attention of a lot of people - The Parker Gun. When Eugene V. Connett's Derrydale Press books got out of sight price-wise in the 80's, a guy in Lyon (where the hell is Lyon?) Mississippi brought out a series of reprints of the most demand books and sold a ton of them. Then Winchester brought the rights to and produced the "Parker" Reproduction and look at what has happened to them in price. There's a product for every market and a market for every product, regardless of the price demanded.

It's like the ball field - if you build it, they will come (with money).

OH - I bought the Track of The Wolf catalog for the pleasure of reading through it and learning something new about some of the old guns, their parts and construction. I have a video here of a gunsmith building a flintlock rifle as it would have been made in 1750, by hand. I mean, entirely by hand from the barrels, wood, iron works, brass furniture, springs, everything. On completion, it sold for $12. The video tape was made at Williamsburg, VA, where I bought it about 12 years ago.

[OH Osthaus]

That would be the Wallace Gusler video?

if you are interested in the history check out the late George Shumway's books
http://www.shumwaypublisher.com/store/shop/default.asp

the current Williamsburg gunsmith have done the barrel making demonstration at the Dixon's Gunmaker Fair several times.

Flintlocks are a lot of fun