Parker Bros Cape Gun

[Jim Durchholz]

New to the Forum,
Can anyone give me information on a Parker Bros Cape Gun ?
Is it a factory gun etc.

[Drew Hause]

This is an old thread that discusses Parker cape guns
https://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb...81&type=thread
The gun shown clearly has a rifle barrel insert, which at the turn-of-the-century was a popular gunsmith modification.
There are a number of .45/70 gunsmith modified L.C. Smith guns

and
https://smith-wessonforum.com/thread...-rifle.678832/

We need full size high resolution images of the breech and muzzle ends of the barrels, and the barrel and action flats

If it is your gun it would definitely be worth requesting a Research Letter. Click on Research Letter on the Home Page
https://parkerguns.org/

[6pt-Sika]

Some pictures would be nice !

[edgarspencer]

Look in The Parker Story, page 673.

[Dean Romig]

I saw this one at the Buffalo Bill Museum about twenty years ago.



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[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I saw this one at the Buffalo Bill Museum about twenty years ago.

Dean, dust off the cobwebs and try to remember if the rifle barrel was original. or one of the almost-as-rare Rifle Barrel Insert Co. inserts.
A member sent me his gun to be cased many years ago,(an 0 frame 16ga TL, I think) and, low and behold, it had one of the aforementioned inserts in .25WCF (25-20 Win.) Maybe he'll post a picture here........

[Mike Franzen]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

A member sent me his gun to be cased many years ago,(an 0 frame 16ga TL, I think) and, low and behold, it had one of the aforementioned inserts in .25WCF (25-20 Win.) Maybe he'll post a picture here........

Here’s some pictures of the above mentioned gun I got from my first Parker mentor, Jim DeSpagno. He graciously allowed me take possession after he realized how infatuated I was with it. (As he has with several other guns). Edgar Spencer agreed to build the custom case just before he retired from that endeavor. It is a true work of art.
The gun is a 16gs TL hammer gun with 30” bbls. The rear sight folds and has two notches, so it can be used from either barrel. The rifled barrel insert works with both barrels. It slides in from the breech and has a locking nut nut which screws into the muzzle end.
(It’s only letting me post one at a time.)

[Researcher]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I saw this one at the Buffalo Bill Museum about twenty years ago.



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Dean, did you happen to get the serial number of the General Nelson A. Miles cape gun? That is the gun I saw when I first visited Cody in the summer of 1980 after the Navy dumped me as they cut back the bulge of Viet Nam era officers.

[Dean Romig]

Jim, give us the serial number so we can look for the information in the Serialization book,





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[Jim DiSpagno]

Yes Edgar, I sold that one and it was a grade 2 16 gauge that had the insert and rifle sights that folded bores were perfect and the full length insert tube was fully rifled and had its own well made extractor. Sorry I sold it.