My thanks to all for your insight. I guess we can sum up the HTA and K markings as "unknown" or "unexplainable".
Anyone study barrel weights as in: these are marked 3/13 ("before striking") and now weight 3/5. That seems like a lot of difference especially with the parts added. Any known definitive explanation?
The reason for this gun appearing in my column it that it is the most generic Parker I have in my workshop. I have never featured Parker guns in my 20 years writing Fine Gunmaking for Shooting Sportsman. It is an opportunity to introduce basic Parker info, the PGCA (great website!), a few lesser known books and an internal view of the gun to the readership.
I hope you aficionados approve when you see the column (July/Aug 2013?)
Best,
Steve
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