Hammerless sidelock

[Major McCollough]

I have Parker Bros receiver only s/n 2914 hammerless top lever sidelock??? Help!

[Dean Romig]

Pictures please??






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[Rick Losey]

serial number seems a little low for a top lever -

any proof marks on the watertable ?

[Brian Dudley]

Yes. Need photos to figure out what you are talking about. Badly.

[Mark Ray]

Do you really mean “hammerless”?? That would be waaay before a hammerless serial number. And I am unaware of any sidelock Parker hammerless guns.

[Brian Dudley]

There was one prototype. It is profiled in TPS. I wonder where that gun is today. But that was built in the late 1880s.

I can easily make a hammerless Parker. Take a hammer gun and remove the hammers.

[Mark Ray]

Yup Brian, there used to be a fella one a gun forum I used to frequent that would always correct if you described a gun as hammerless, to this nform that the gun was not hmmerless, it had internal hammers! What you propose would truly be hammerless, but useful only as a paperweight!!

If the pics show up as a true “internal hammer”
Parker Bothers sidelock action, there is going to be a mad scramble bidding war!

[Chuck Bishop]

I remember seeing one that was converted at the Las Vegas show. I think I have it right that it was a hammer gun converted to hammerless.

[Brian Dudley]

There are a few of those out there too. Lefever did some. Converted to sidecocking as well.

[Major McCollough]

Photos attached.

[Bruce Day]

Not a Parker Brothers gun.

[Dean Romig]

That is not a Parker Bros. frame.

It does seem to be an ejector gun however.

... unless those are cocking rods protruding from the front of the frame knuckle.



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[Gerald McPherson]

There was a whole gun very much like that in a local shop about a year ago. It was marked Parker Bros like this one,

[Dean Romig]

According to the Serialization book, Parker Bros. ser. no. 2914 was a L U 0 11 30.

That would be Laminated, Underlifter, 0 options, 11 gauge, 30 inch barrels.



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[Brian Dudley]

That is a crescent.

And, yes, those are cocking rods.

[Major McCollough]

Thank you, Brian. I had never seen a hardware store gun in nice condition.