TSS Shot

[Wild Skies]

Paul, I agree with almost everything you wrote in the above post. It is true that all Repros have chrome-lined barrels. However, and what has been reported here in this sub-forum by an authoritative source, using empirical data, is that the SSSs have chrome-lining through the choke area, whereas the regular run of Repros do not.

I am open to correction, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Paul, I agree with almost everything you wrote in the above post. It is true that all Repros have chrome-lined barrels. However, and what has been reported here in this sub-forum by an authoritative source, using empirical data, is that the SSSs have chrome-lining through the choke area, whereas the regular run of Repros do not.

I am open to correction, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I've been around the industrial chroming game some with cylinder lining in diesel engines, my mechanical instincts tell me that it doesn't make sense that you can exclude the choke area while chroming the other 90% of the bore. The only way I see this possible is for the chokes to be cut after the chroming process was done. Why would they cut the chokes before the chroming process on the SSS and not on the rest of the Repro barrels as they went down the production line? Just my curious mind telling me something isn't passing the sniff test here.

I'm still of the thought that all Parker repro's were ran through the same production processes at the factory and the SSS were for the most part just a marketing tool for the dealer that special ordered them for their shop.

An item I try to keep in mind is that when the SSS were made steel shot was just immerging on the scene for waterfowl hunting and there was very little knowledge about it at the time and a dealer having a special run of guns made & marketed as steel shot specials was a great sales hook. This worked so well that we still revere them to this day. Now, here we are having a discussion about a new non-tox shot hitting the market and the circle starts again--Is it safe to shoot it in my gun.

If repro's were still in production, we could have a special run of TSS specials made. Ten bucks says a bunch of them would be sold

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Paul Ehlers

I've been around the industrial chroming game some with cylinder lining in diesel engines, my mechanical instincts tell me that it doesn't make sense that you can exclude the choke area while chroming the other 90% of the bore. The only way I see this possible is for the chokes to be cut after the chroming process was done. Why would they cut the chokes before the chroming process on the SSS and not on the rest of the Repro barrels as they went down the production line? Just my curious mind telling me something isn't passing the sniff test here.

I'm still of the thought that all Parker repro's were ran through the same production processes at the factory and the SSS were for the most part just a marketing tool for the dealer that special ordered them for their shop.

An item I try to keep in mind is that when the SSS were made steel shot was just immerging on the scene for waterfowl hunting and there was very little knowledge about it at the time and a dealer having a special run of guns made & marketed as steel shot specials was a great sales hook. This worked so well that we still revere them to this day. Now, here we are having a discussion about a new non-tox shot hitting the market and the circle starts again--Is it safe to shoot it in my gun.

If repro's were still in production, we could have a special run of TSS specials made. Ten bucks says a bunch of them would be sold

Page 4 of the below linked thread brought forth information by a couple of individuals more knowledgable regarding industrial chrome lining and more intimately involved with the development of the SSS than myself.
https://parkerguns.org/forums/showth...ghlight=chrome

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Page 4 of the below linked thread brought forth information by a couple of individuals more knowledgable regarding industrial chrome lining and more intimately involved with the development of the SSS than myself.
https://parkerguns.org/forums/showth...ghlight=chrome

I fully respect what our fellow member Mr. Allen has to say about the production of the SSS. I just wish we had some actual technical production data to give some definitive proof of differences between standard repro's and the SSS's.

My problem is I have a skeptical mind and am constantly questioning many of the things we see on the internet & elsewhere anymore. My phrase for this is it's the internet form of urban Myth & Ledgen. There's a ton of it on all the gun forms on a wide range of subjects & some of the information on the Parker Repro's falls into this bucket.

In the big picture of things, it's great that we have the special run of Steel Shot Specials and I'm really glad we have them.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Paul Ehlers

I fully respect what our fellow member Mr. Allen has to say about the production of the SSS. I just wish we had some actual technical production data to give some definitive proof of differences between standard repro's and the SSS's.

My problem is I have a skeptical mind and am constantly questioning many of the things we see on the internet & elsewhere anymore. My phrase for this is it's the internet form of urban Myth & Ledgen. There's a ton of it on all the gun forms on a wide range of subjects & some of the information on the Parker Repro's falls into this bucket.

In the big picture of things, it's great that we have the special run of Steel Shot Specials and I'm really glad we have them.

Well, how about bringing some of that Parker Repro Urban Myth & Legend information you talk about to the Parker Reproduction "Production Chart" thread? We all might further our knowledge . . .