Grade two lifter hammer gun

[Brett Souder]

I am looking for any additional information that could be shared about this gun serial number 38854. I do not own it. It is in the serial number book and is as listed, Grade 2, pistol grip, 10 ga., 32". The barrels are uncut and remain choked full/full and show minimal pitting and are dent free. The only problems I see with this gun is it has no buttplate, but the wood is undamaged and the barrels need to be put back on face. The seller is asking $1,500.00. What would be an approximate cost to put the barrels back on face and is this a reasonable price for a lifter hammer gun in 10 ga. with 32" barrels? Thank you in advance for any replies.
- Brett

[Dean Romig]

I think the asking price is fair.

If you would like to have the barrels refinished I would recommend Breck Gorman.

I will shoot you an opinion PM about tightening the barrels.





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[Dan Steingraber]

Pretty gun

[Jay Oliver]

That is a nice one and has the check hook barrels(which are nice on a lifter).

[Brian Dudley]

A checkhook lifter. This is outside of the normal transition period from Lifter to top action. Which was in the 25,000-26,000 area. So this was a gun that a customer specifically requested a lifter action when Parker was well into making top action guns.

[Dean Romig]

Right Brian and I've only been aware of a few such guns... like that I could count on one hand.





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[Ed Blake]

To refinish the barrels and put barrels back on face, probably $500-650. Plus new butt plate. Do you load for a 10? If not, look for a 12. Ten gauge is real expensive to shoot now if you don’t reload.

[Dean Romig]

As strictly a hunting gun with the occasional clays game, I personally wouldn’t worry too much about the cost of ammo. But that’s just me.





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[Mike Poindexter]

If for some totally irrational reason you decide to pass on this gun, would you give me the seller's info? I'd like dibs. Really nice looking long range goose gun.

[CraigThompson]

To refinish the barrels and put barrels back on face, probably $500-650. Plus new butt plate. Do you load for a 10? If not, look for a 12. Ten gauge is real expensive to shoot now if you don’t reload.

At the moment it's not inexpensive to load for until THE NEW Remington decides to make SP-10 wads again , and even after that they'll most likely price them over the top .:cuss:

[Mike Koneski]

At the moment it's not inexpensive to load for until THE NEW Remington decides to make SP-10 wads again , and even after that they'll most likely price them over the top .:cuss:

There are other 10g wads out there that can be used instead of the SP10 if need be.

[CraigThompson]

There are other 10g wads out there that can be used instead of the SP10 if need be.

I’ve had Gualandi wads for the 10 gauge on backorder about a year now . I have a decent supply of SP-10’s on my shelf and have 500+ already loaded with SO-10’s . But I’d “rather” stay with the same thing . I’m more in need of SP-8 wads then anything and I have a nice supply of Gualandi 8 gauge wads that work just fine with same powder and shot charges just need to add two more red beans as filler :whistle: