Family Heirloom - Parker DH?

[Dean Romig]

Right Dave, both 2-frame guns with different loads - I wonder why?

It's great to read the "Directions" on that hang tag where it discusses the fact that dropping the hammers is perfectly okay to do but that an ejector gun requires a different procedure to prevent damage to the stop plate..... something we all were discussing here on the forum just yesterday and this morning.





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[Dean Romig]

Nathan, are you in Maine?





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[Researcher]

Right Dave, both 2-frame guns with different loads - I wonder why?

The Trojan of this thread which we know is a 28-inch barrel, 2-frame, weighs 7 pounds 7 ounces by the tag. The other tag I was looking at with the 2 3/4 inch 1 1/4 ounce load is for a 30-inch, 12-gauge, gun that weighs by the tag 7 pounds 10 ounces. I don't know the frame size.

For some reason more pictures of 20-gauge tags have come my way than 12-gauge tags.

[Nathan Hocking]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Nathan, are you in Maine?





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Dean - my dad's side of the family is from there, and he grew up there. No one in my immediate family lives there anymore. Wonderful place, though. You?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Nathan Hocking

Dean - my dad's side of the family is from there, and he grew up there. No one in my immediate family lives there anymore. Wonderful place, though. You?

I live in Mass but own property in Maine and spend a great deal of time there.





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[Dean Hanson]

Nathan, Thank you.... Shoot straight and be well.

[Dean Romig]

The high condition DHE is also a 2-frame. One of the first few pictures on page 1 shows the lug with the 2 stamped.





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[Richard Flanders]

The engraving on the DHE is spectacular! The Trojan was clearly his working brush gun! What a great pair to inherit.

[Jim L Lawrence]

Double "Wow"! An incredible, beautiful gun. You guy's are very lucky.

Jim

[Larry the Gun Guy]

Looking in the book I see less than 800 34" barrel guns, not including the single barrel trap guns, out of the 240,575 (242,487 total - 1912 single barrel trap guns), Parkers made. Roughly .003325 or .33%. Obviously, they made some guns longer, but those are fewer by far.
Beautiful gun.