Is This Real

[Dave Noreen]

While I'm sure these are real VHE-Grade barrels --

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it is the 3 IN. MAG. stamping in question.

[Ed Blake]

What is the year of manufacture? I would say not factory. The very few 3” Parker’s I’ve seen the stamp was on both sides of the lug. Stamp doesn’t look right either.

[Patrick Lien]

NOPE!

[Brian Dudley]

IF something like that was factory, it would be a single stamp, not individual stamps that anyone could get out of a stamp set.

[Bill Murphy]

No Remington repair codes, so no point in comparing these 3" stamps with stamps on Remington guns. Is there a PGCA letter on this gun?

[charlie cleveland]

have you shot 3 inch shells out of this gun it should be s duck getter....charlie

[Dave Noreen]

It is a gun that is for sale in Montana, and a poster on another board inquired about it. I don't have the serial number, but in that it doesn't have the PARKER BROS. OVERLOAD PROVED stamps it is from before about 1926.

[Eric Eis]

Just a gunsmith that bored out the chambers and marked it 3"

[Bill Murphy]

That would be my opinion unless Dave throws us another bone. I have early (before overload stamps) Parkers that have long chambers that have are documented by PGCA letters. None of these guns have stamps that indicate chamber length.