Top lever 3 frame 12’s

[CraigThompson]

I’m curious about the existence of top lever hammer guns that are #3 frame and 12 gauge . Does such a bird exist and how often are they seen ?

[Jay Oliver]

Hi Craig,

I don't have the exact configuration you are asking about. I do have a #3 frame 12ga late lifter with the longer receiver and check hook barrels. It's an 0 grade with 32" twist barrels and weighs 10 pounds. It was made in 1893. Someone in Kansas order 3 in the exact configuration.

It is one of my best shooting Parkers and can really reach out there!

[Bill Murphy]

Jay, can you PM me the serial number. My #3 frame lifter 12 is #104043

[Stan Hoover]

I wasn’t particularly looking for a heavy 12, but I thought this may have been a special order, but not so much.
30” Damascus barrels, 2 5/8” chambers, 3 Frame, my scales show 9 lbs 3.9 ozs

It is a heavy gun, but condition is very high and the price was fair. Oh yeah, it works well on those SoDak cock birds:)

[Joe Dreisch]

Love the woodcock with the worm on that one!

[CraigThompson]

I wasn’t particularly looking for a heavy 12, but I thought this may have been a special order, but not so much.
30” Damascus barrels, 2 5/8” chambers, 3 Frame, my scales show 9 lbs 3.9 ozs

It is a heavy gun, but condition is very high and the price was fair. Oh yeah, it works well on those SoDak cock birds:)

That thing might work pretty well for a “Ribeye in the Sky” !

[Stan Hoover]

That thing might work pretty well for a “Ribeye in the Sky” !

Do you have those dates yet:corn:

[William Woods]

I wasn’t particularly looking for a heavy 12, but I thought this may have been a special order, but not so much.
30” Damascus barrels, 2 5/8” chambers, 3 Frame, my scales show 9 lbs 3.9 ozs

It is a heavy gun, but condition is very high and the price was fair. Oh yeah, it works well on those SoDak cock birds:)

What a nice looking gun.

[Jay Oliver]

That thing might work pretty well for a “Ribeye in the Sky”

Let's bring our hammer guns to Kansas this fall and do just that!

I hunted them with a 10gauge DH 3 frame a few years ago. Would love to do it again with a hammer gun...

[Reggie Bishop]

Very attractive Parker Stan.

[CraigThompson]

Let's bring our hammer guns to Kansas this fall and do just that!

I hunted them with a 10gauge DH 3 frame a few years ago. Would love to do it again with a hammer gun...

You went to Carolina and got a tundra swan correct ? How were they as table fare ?

[CraigThompson]

Let's bring our hammer guns to Kansas this fall and do just that!

I hunted them with a 10gauge DH 3 frame a few years ago. Would love to do it again with a hammer gun...

They have a Sandhill Crane season in KS ?

[Jay Oliver]

Sandhill Crane are so much better than Tundra Swan. Though I would gladly hunt both again.

I was hunting the Kansas/Oklahoma boarder for Sandhill Crane. It was a lot of fun and I would like to go back. One of the best eating birds...

[Stan Hoover]

Sandhill Crane are so much better than Tundra Swan. Though I would gladly hunt both again.

I was hunting the Kansas/Oklahoma boarder for Sandhill Crane. It was a lot of fun and I would like to go back. One of the best eating birds...

That sounds like fun Jay,
we may have to discuss this further, and yes, everything done with a hammer gun is more fun:cool:

[Stan Hoover]

Love the woodcock with the worm on that one!

I believe the lighting created an imaginary worm Joe, a few more pics

[jimlott]

Here are a few pictures of my #3 frame, top lever 12, which was shipped in 1885 to E.E. Menges in Kansas City, MO. 30 in Damascus barrels, 8lb 9 oz, IC/M—the gun letters as 9 lbs, F/F

I also took this gun to the Vintagers in the fall of '23 at Warrington and had issues with the trigger pull, discussed in this thread https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41055

[Stan Hoover]

Here are a few pictures of my #3 frame, top lever 12, which was shipped in 1885 to E.E. Menges in Kansas City, MO. 30 in Damascus barrels, 8lb 9 oz, IC/M—the gun letters as 9 lbs, F/F

I also took this gun to the Vintagers in the fall of '23 at Warrington and had issues with the trigger pull, discussed in this thread https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41055

Thanks for showing that nice Parker again Jim, I'm curious if our 3 frame Parkers are close in age?? Serial # on mine is 27118

[jimlott]

46259 1885. What, about 3 yrs younger?

[Stan Hoover]

Yessir, 1882 & 1885