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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 03:08 am |
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Still getting educated. Is 38" the longest Parker barrels made or do I hear 40??
Jack
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James T. Kucaba
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 05:56 am |
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Jack Cronkhite wrote: Still getting educated. Is 38" the longest Parker barrels made or do I hear 40??
Jack
Jack, ... From what I understand, Parker made a quite a few guns with 40 inch barrels. I know of several 40 inch Parker 8 gauges and I would guess that Parker made 10, 12, and 16 gauge guns with 40 inch barreles as well ... I'm sure that Austin Hogan or some other PGCA member can tell us how many guns Parker actually made with 40 inch or longer barrels.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 10:09 am |
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| There's a picture of a 40" DH ten gauge being held by Charles E. Greene IV on a turkey hunt on page 1027, Vol. II of The Parker Story.
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Thu Feb 26th, 2009 03:01 pm |
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So, we can confirm 40" barrels.
Are there any known examples or records of Parker barrels beyond 40"?
Jack
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Austin W Hogan
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 02:03 am |
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According to the archive there are 45 12 ga guns with 40 inch barrels; 1 16 ga; 14 10 ga and 12 8 ga. There are also one each 46 inch and 50 inch.
No barrrels more than 38 inches are archived after 180000.
Best, Austin
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 02:49 am |
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50 inch !!  Not your average pheasant gun. 
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James T. Kucaba
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 03:51 am |
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Austin W Hogan wrote: According to the archive there are 45 12 ga guns with 40 inch barrels; 1 16 ga; 14 10 ga and 12 8 ga. There are also one each 46 inch and 50 inch.
No barrrels more than 38 inches are archived after 180000.
Best, Austin
SEE ! ... I told you guys that Austin would know how many Parkers were built with 40 inch and longer barrels ! ... Apart from being a genuinely nice guy, the man's wa living, breathing, walking talking, Human Univac ... An overflowing "Fountain of Knowledge !
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 01:29 pm |
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Speaking of long barrels, I just got my relatively stubby set of 36" GH D2 barrels back for Brileys. They did a wonderful job of cleaning up the bores with a .010 backbore, The barrels retain their 2 7/8" chambers and .046 chokes. Its been a week for long barrels. I turned down 34" DHE and my buddy is working on another one that turned up.
BTW, Jim, my employers, Unisys Corporation owns the Sperry and Univac names and I started my job here as a lawyer in Blue Bell, PA at Sperry Univac world headquarters
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Chuck Bishop
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| Don, do you happen to know the origin of the name Univac? Did your company buy the rights to that name from someone else?
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Bob Roberts
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 09:21 pm |
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The name stands for "UNIVersal Automatic Computer".
From Wikipedia.
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1950s MAN PROGRAMMER SITTING AT CONSOLE IN DATA PROCESSING ROOM WITH REMINGTON RAND UNIVAC COMPUTER AND TAPE DRIVES
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 09:36 pm |
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Austin W Hogan wrote: According to the archive there are 45 12 ga guns with 40 inch barrels; 1 16 ga; 14 10 ga and 12 8 ga. There are also one each 46 inch and 50 inch.
No barrrels more than 38 inches are archived after 180000.
Best, Austin
MANY years ago, when ducks darkened the sky and the PGCA was not yet in the zygotic stage, Clark Bros. Gunshop in Warrenton VA offered an incredibly well-used but not abused 12 ga. DHE with 40" barrels. Urban legend thereabouts had that the gun was owned and used for waterfowl by none other than Walter Chrysler (Nash Buckingham, eat your heart out!). The gun sat in their rack for almost a year, then disappeared. I have no idea who took it away, but other than the 40" barrels, there is one unmistakeable characteristic about it - midway between the CPG and the SKBP, there was a perfectly round half-sphere of wood about 1" in diameter and about 3/8" deep gouged out of the stock, as if someone had used a melon ball scooper to remove it. Ever after, all of us soon-to-be Parkerphiles referred to the gun as "The Melon Ball Gun." In true Neanderthal fashion, none of us wrote the serial number down. Duh.
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 10:03 pm |
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A Parker collector in Toledo told me one evening while shooting trap with him that he had the only 16 GA 40 inch Parker. Richard Bohl was the gentleman and he passed away 5/6 years ago. I understand his son inherited his Parker collection (many upper grades) BTW he was not a big bs'er.
Now unfortunately all you long barrel fans I do not know his son.
Their business is Bohl Equipment, Laskey Road, Toledo, Ohio
Roger Coger
BTW Dick Bohl was a PGCA member and did attend some of the business meeting/Ohio GCA shows in Cleveland. Kevin at one of the shows if I remember correctly, he was set up near you with 8 maybe 10 Parkers.
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Fri Feb 27th, 2009 10:59 pm |
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 12:59 am |
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Now, here's a coincidence for you. Several years ago, I bought The Parker Story on Ebay from a Bohl Equipment Co in Toledo, Oh. I remember the name for several reasons. When the auction was over and I had won the books for $132.00 including shipping, I got to talk to the seller on the phone. I don't recall his name. It was a young fella said he was handling selling these books for his boss who's father had passed recently.
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:08 am |
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| That may have been the family's only record. Do you still have it?
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:12 am |
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I do have it. I never thought of that, Dean. I should probably send it back to the son. Frankly, with the address above I think I still will.
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:29 am |
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Dave: That's a kind thing to do. I would be curious to know
1: do they want it
2: do they still have the collection
If yes/yes then that is nice.
If no/no then it is maybe a reminder that a collector is in the game on their own
Also, if no/no then another small indicator to suggest that shooting what you have and enjoying them in every dimension of enjoyment they can offer is a reasonable thing to do.
Maybe I overstate. I am nonetheless curious.
Cheers,
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:35 am |
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David Purnell wrote: Frankly, with the address above I think I still will.
Dave
Of course, I don't think it would be morally wrong to make a copy for yourself
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:41 am |
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No overstatement, Jack. I'll call first, at the number you listed above.
Dean, noted.
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 01:54 am |
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