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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
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in the attached pic it is stamped "Overload Parker Bros" on the bottom of the barrels what exactly does that mean, sorry for the dumb question! frame size.jpg
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A bit of marketing by Parker Bros. It is called a "proof mark". It means PB proofed the gun in the factory with heavy proof loads which by definition are "overloads". A.H. Fox Gun Co put "Fox Proof" on their guns, Winchester stamped a "WP" on theirs, for instance to signify the same testing was undertaken on that particular firearm. Unlike almost all western countries, the US did not and does not have a government sanctioned independent proofhouse that tests all firearms for structural integrity prior to sale. Parker and the other major gunmakers did this themselves using procedures similar to the proofhouses in London, Birmingham and Liege. (See TPS for more) W.W. Greener in his wonderful tome, " The Gun and its Development" gives a graphic description of the English proof procedures.
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