Work Order Tag/ Pleasant Surprise

[Dan Steingraber]

I was very pleasantly surprised to receive a work order tag in the mail yesterday for gun I own. The tag was gratiously provided unsolicited when the gentleman was informed that I was the current owner of the gun. What a cool piece of history. As I held it I tried to imagine myself in the Parker factory standing along side the craftsmen as they expertly ply their trade. Very cool. I continue to be humbled and amazed at the quality and character of The Parker Community.
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[Paul Ehlers]

Way Cool!!

Thanks for sharing this with us!

[Mark Riessen]

Does someone with better eyesight than myself have the ability to read the writing on the back or decipher it ?? M

[Dan Steingraber]

Does someone with better eyesight than myself have the ability to read the writing on the back or decipher it ?? M

I think it’s a take order for Chinese for the boys on the line. 🤷*♂️😂😂

[David Noble]

Does someone with better eyesight than myself have the ability to read the writing on the back or decipher it ?? M

It says: marked 3_4 weighs 3_2
The unstruck weight was mismarked?

[Dan Steingraber]

Good work Dave. Super Sleuth.

[Daryl Corona]

That is way cool Dan. To me, better than a research letter.

[Bob Brown]

Maybe the unstruck weight was 3_4 and the finished weight was 3_2?

[Brian Dudley]

I wonder what the 6-8 is for “butt”.

[Mike Koneski]

I wonder what the 6-8 is for “butt”.

6/8" DAH!!!! :rotf:

[Dan Steingraber]

I wonder what the 6-8 is for “butt”.

I wondered that myself and thought perhaps they had a numbering system for the size and style of butt plate.

[Brian Dudley]

The plates were numbered 0, 1, 2 and 3. And they were molded into the plate.

A 16g gun would typically use a number 1 plate.

[Dan Steingraber]

The plates were numbered 0, 1, 2 and 3. And they were molded into the plate.

A 16g gun would typically use a number 1 plate.

Learning, learning, learning. Here's the plate. As you can see it's a 0. I was also surprised to see someone had removed some wood from inside the stock. I assume for weight adjustment. Have you seen this before? It certainly has to weaken the stock somewhat.

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[Reggie Bishop]

Dan on some of the skeleton steel butt plate guns you can see the round plugs in the butt stock holes.

[Brian Dudley]

That boring is likely factory. Maybe not. If it is, it would have been done to balance the gun. Usually when the factory removes wood from under the butt, the holes would be plugged up. Even under a buttplate. But I cannot say that was always the case over the many years of manufacture.

Boring out the butt like that does not weaken the stock at all. It is in the back and does not see any stress. They can be bored out far more than that.
Wood really does not weigh that much. One has to remove a lot from the butt in order to really make any major difference in weight or balance. When it comes to wood in the butt, an ounce or two is about all you can reasonably hope to remove.