Fish tail top lever on a PH?

[Bill Graham]

Was a fish tail top lever common on anything other than a top lever hammer gun? Saw one on a PH and wondered if it was a factory option or not. Thank you.

[Tom Flanigan]

I have seen fish tail top levers on hammerless guns. Its not rare but uncommon. I like them. They provided no function for a hammerless gun but Parker probably used them on hammerless guns to deplete their inventory of fish tail top levers after they converted to hammerless guns.

[Dean Romig]

I've seen a good number of hammerless Parkers with the fishtail lever. I currently have a GH with that lever and I have seen higher grade guns with that feature... a beautiful BH comes to mind. My guess is they were as aesthetic pleasing then as they are now, or we would likely not see them on the high grades.





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[Jevon Jamieson]

I know of a 1891 G with one. They look kinda cool

[Mills Morrison]

I have a GH, EH and NH with fishtail toplevers. They are cool

[Daryl Corona]

Mine is a DH with a fishtail, 70658.

[Rick Losey]

my PH 70168 has one

[Michael Moffa]

BH, DH and G. Really cool to look at and function.

[Dave Suponski]

My PH 68809 has one also.

[MARK KIRCHER]

1892 Columbian Exposition CH #705XX

[Dean Romig]

Looks like a grade 2 or 3 Mark, which is it?





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[MARK KIRCHER]

Dean,
It letters as a grade 4. Possibly unique engraving? Certainly uncommon. Steve C. has a nice set of pictures of this one in a recent DGJ article on the Columbian exposition. Neat gun. And I shoot it well.:)

[Dean Romig]

I see it now in the checkering layout - I should have noticed that before. Thanks Mark.





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[Daniel G Rainey]

I had one but traded the gun. Since I am left handed, it seemed to me that the gun was easier to break open because of the fishtail.

[Dean Romig]

Others have said that Daniel... Or maybe it was you some time ago.






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[edgarspencer]

I had one but traded the gun. Since I am left handed, it seemed to me that the gun was easier to break open because of the fishtail.

Others have said that Daniel... Or maybe it was you some time ago.

I, too, am southpaw, and spent a fair portion of each summer growing up in Scotland. Not being able to drive, I attributed the amount of hitch hiking I did the main reason my left thumb isn't as long as my right. I find the fishtail TL on my hammer guns distinctly easier to open, as compared to my straight lever guns. My thumb needn't go so far over the top of the receiver.

[Dean Romig]

Will you be wearing your kilt at Hausmann's?

On the British Isles you would naturally have used your left thumb to hitch a ride... Does that explain why it is shorter than the right?..... why is that?





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[edgarspencer]

Will you be wearing your kilt at Hausmann's?. I could, and have the knees for it. I'll have to coordinate with Kevin

On the British Isles you would naturally have used your left thumb to hitch a ride... Does that explain why it is shorter than the right?Yes, I wore it down. why is that?Because they keep to the left.