Parker Laminated Steel Barrels and Guns

[charlie cleveland]

mark i also have a very tite choked lc smith 10 ga...it will out shoot any gun i have as far as putting shot in a can at 55 steps...i woulds say your gun would kill a goose at 70 yards and mite do it at 75 yards.. hope you get a chance someday to try it... i just got threw shooting a 10 ga buckshot load that i had lost last year in my shooting house..it laid on the shooting window ledge from last seaso till this one...was in the sun and moisture setting on that ledge it does not have glass in in it...was afraid it probably not go off but i put up paper target and tried it...used the old p grade parker 10...the shell firerd ok and i put all 000 8 of them in the circle...i was suprized and proud at the same time...woulda been a dead dear on paper... loaded up 5 more rounds of 000 buck boy did i look good on paper..even shot the old 8 ga pumpkin ball load once from 37 steps i look good on paper with it too...hoping to stretch my range a little bit with it hopefully out to 50 steps but got to shoot it a little more...but at 35 steps i should be ok if i ever get a shot with it...ive still got 6 weeks left of deer season just maybe... charlie

[Drew Hause]

Back to the original images posted by Bro. Day. Our friend sent me high resolution pics of the 1879 B and I now believe the barrels are also Toncin and not laminated steel. AND I found another gun owned by the same fella, a D Lifter, which might have the same pattern.
Please see http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23997270

It would be fascinating to know how/why these high grade barrels appeared on late 1870s C&B Lifters. Were they left over from the D.B. Wesson supply? Did Wesson's barrel guy go over to Meriden and make some Laminated steel and Twist barrels in-house in that same time frame??

See http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfg2hmx7_1742r4n6vcz

[Drew Hause]

Looks to be another one. This is the c. 1878 Grade 3 20g now on the Julia site. This is the best image, though difficult to confirm the pattern. It is also marked 'Laminated Steel'