How much is too much for a full restoration?

[ED J, MORGAN]

Pictures would help make advice worth more.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Chad, if you want to shoot it contact Briley. They can make full length tubes for the gun with fixed or screw-in choke tubes. They can do the tubes for pretty much anything smaller than what the barrels are now and that will give you the peace of mind shooting a gun that has been badly pitted. Clean up the wood, maybe clean up the exterior of the bbls, even have them rust blued if you want to make it pretty. You'll be able to shoot it and enjoy looking at it and remembering the history of that gun in your family.

[tom tutwiler]

Falling into the FWIW, category, my local gunsmith basic shop rate to do soup to nuts work is $80 per hour. He is a journeyman meat and potatoes gunsmith, went to various gunsmithing trade schools etc.. At $80 per hour he has more work then he can do.

PS. Restoring this (or any) Parker is beyond his capabilities as he mostly builds benchrest rifles.

[Hammer Gun]

Brian is right! On these old guns the barrels are foremost if they are pitted and BWT is to thin, hang it on the wall and tell stories about it, Gary