Parker Bros Cape Gun

[Researcher]

Remington Arms Co. offered the rifle barrel insert for shotguns. From the 1901 Remington Arms Co. catalog --

Auxiliary Rifle Barrel 1901 Catalogue.jpg

E. Remington & Sons actually made double rifles and cape guns on their Whitmore lifter doubles.

[Bill Murphy]

127,995 was a 28" 16 gauge, according to the Serialization Book.

[Pa SxS]

Nothing in the records for a rifled barrel, just a VH 16/28" barrels and CPG.

[Researcher]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I saw this one at the Buffalo Bill Museum about twenty years ago.



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Dean, did you happen to get the serial number of the General Nelson A. Miles cape gun? That is the gun I saw when I first visited Cody in the summer of 1980 after the Navy dumped me as they cut back the bulge of Viet Nam era officers.

[Dean Romig]

Sorry Dave, I couldn't see the serial number on the gun or on the description plaques... and I never thought to ask museum personnel.





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[Mike Franzen]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

A member sent me his gun to be cased many years ago,(an 0 frame 16ga TL, I think) and, low and behold, it had one of the aforementioned inserts in .25WCF (25-20 Win.) Maybe he'll post a picture here........

Here’s some pictures of the above mentioned gun I got from my first Parker mentor, Jim DeSpagno. He graciously allowed me take possession after he realized how infatuated I was with it. (As he has with several other guns). Edgar Spencer agreed to build the custom case just before he retired from that endeavor. It is a true work of art.
The gun is a 16gs TL hammer gun with 30” bbls. The rear sight folds and has two notches, so it can be used from either barrel. The rifled barrel insert works with both barrels. It slides in from the breech and has a locking nut nut which screws into the muzzle end.
(It’s only letting me post one at a time.)

[Mike Franzen]

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