Buying Question

[John Taddeo]

Im back on the edge of my seat.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Bruce Day

Eric knows Parker skeet guns.


Eric, could this be a standard game gun that went back to Parker in the late 20's/early 30's to be rebarreled and beavertail forend added to be suitable for the new game of skeet? The beavertail forend looks early Parker to me.

Does the absence of a Parker Bros or Parker overload proofed stamp pin a return date to the mid 1920's?


This assumes return records are not available and the history must be discerned through indicators on the gun. It looks like factory work to me.

Bruce that's my gut feeling too, that it was sent back and rebarreled the forend look early to me too, not what you would find on a "Skeet Gun" per say and to me it looks like factory work. Like a said nice gun but not sure it should carry a premium for being a Skeet gun.

[paul stafford jr]

heres a foto of my 1923 forend[IMG][IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

[paul stafford jr]

[paul stafford jr]

[Pa SxS]

To me, the case colors on the water table look correct. Is that where the S/N is typically stamped on a BTF? Just asking for my own knowledge.

[John Taddeo]

Great (info packed) stuff guys, in the absence of a Sunday afternoon game. Thanks.

[David Noble]

Mr. Abraham, what does the reinforcement rod in you forearm screw in to? I see no provision in the forearm iron, or the inletting for it.
Mr. Stanford's gun shows the usual beavertail forearm iron.

[Dean Romig]

David, Mr Abraham's forend iron is correct for a BTFE as is the reinforced forend lug on the barrels.

[David Noble]

Well, again I ask, what does the reinforcement screw in the front of the beavertail screw into? All I've ever seen or owned screwed into an extension of the forend iron. I'm not seeing that in Mr. Abraham's pictures, but do in Mr. Stanford's.