Tell me about lifters

[Bruce Day]

John, may I suggest you contact Gary Carmichael and see his collection? If you are interested in potentially acquiring a lifter action Parker, Gary's advice would be invaluable. There are some highly desireable, others not so. The lifter action is exceedingly ergonomic.

[John Truitt]

Bruce,

Thank you. I am not doing this for collecting reasons. I am interested in obtaining a D grade 10 gauge hammer gun to enter the ten gauge events at the Vintagers/ Southern/ etc events.
I am partial to D grde hammer guns. I perfer the looks of top lever guns. However I found a lifter D for a very reasonable price with long barrels in an overall weight that works for me.
Again I would much rather have a top lever but finding a 32 or 34 inch d grade at 9 and a half pounds can be difficult without spending more money than I want to put into it.

I am still on the hunt for a D grade top lever in #1, #2, or #3 frame with ruined barrels.

[Smoothebore]

John,

When you have it in hand and on your bench, you will be impressed with ingenious simplicity of the Lifter design. It only has a handfull of parts.

Dave


Other than screws to get her apart, this is all that's inside.

[John Truitt]

wow.
thankyou.
that is simple.