Parker 3 inch guns

[Bill Murphy]

Crossman may state "most with 34" barrels", but empirical study doesn't jive with that. Muzzle heavy doesn't jive with my experience either. Remington era 3" guns I have seen have been on 1 1/2 frames. I think Capt. Crossman is forwarding information that he thinks is true, not what he has experienced. That is what we have seen in the gun press in the thirties through the seventies concerning shotguns. The authors were mostly rifle guys and spit out shared incorrect shotgun information in their writings. As an aside, I would like to see a Parker letter describing a 3" gun in the period from 1926, when Crossman wrote that article, to the Remington era when 3" markings appeared on the barrel lug of barrels not marked on the ribs. I guess Chuck Bishop could conduct some of this research if he is interested.