Hunting with Hammers

[Lloyd McKissick]

http://i.imgur.com/OluuvVAh.jpg (https://imgur.com/OluuvVA)

http://i.imgur.com/2Up1AsLh.jpg (https://imgur.com/2Up1AsL)

http://i.imgur.com/hNV23sNh.jpg (https://imgur.com/hNV23sN)

http://i.imgur.com/puLeWuGh.jpg?1 (https://imgur.com/puLeWuG)

Sorry, not a Parker (but I intend to remedy that shortly).

http://i.imgur.com/oaDopsBh.jpg (https://imgur.com/oaDopsB)

Less than 60-days to go now...

[todd allen]

Wow, that is a beauty!

[Lloyd McKissick]

Thanks Todd, which one?

[Dean Romig]

That Parker’s getting you there.





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[Lloyd McKissick]

Mr. Romig: Different horses for different courses here.

The Lang, a converted pinfire, has no choke (made before chokes were invented), weighs 6 1/4 lbs and is very light and lively, making it excellent to carry for ruffies & the like. The later Parker is about a pound heavier (& with lots of choke) which means it should be more suited for prairie birds.

Both strike me as beautiful examples of engineering from another time.

[Chuck Bishop]

This gun should be posted in the "General Discussions about Other Fine Doubles", not in the Parker Gun Hammer forum. it's not a Parker Hammer Gun.

[Lloyd McKissick]

Oh dear, it seems that I have violated a strict form of decorum here.

My apologies.

[Dean Romig]

I can certainly appreciate most other game guns besides my favorite, the Parker.
Your Lang appears to be well worth admiration.

I love the classic lines!


Mr. Romig: Different horses for different courses here.

The Lang, a converted pinfire, has no choke (made before chokes were invented), weighs 6 1/4 lbs and is very light and lively, making it excellent to carry for ruffies & the like. The later Parker is about a pound heavier (& with lots of choke) which means it should be more suited for prairie birds.

Both strike me as beautiful examples of engineering from another time.

[john pulis]

Nice gun. I have a Watson 16, back action, like your Lang. Handles and shoots like a dream with low pressure RSTs.

[Lloyd McKissick]

Saw 3 grouse today where the full chokes on my Parker hammer would have been useful. I may assemble it and start carrying it on some trails here. Everything seems.to be at some distence this year.

[Bill Murphy]

A good grouse gun should include a full or near full left barrel. My grandfather's 1887 Lefever pigeon gun was bored cylinder and full. I always thought that someone had messed with the right barrel choke. Later study confirms that his left barrel was for one shot flyer shoots which were the standard of the day in late 1800s and early 1900s competition. His right barrel was for grouse, in the pre Pheasant days when the gun was made. Granddad was apparently a one gun man, although I have one 1910 photo of him holding another make of gun, not identified.

[Lloyd McKissick]

http://i.imgur.com/sLhg0Kjh.jpg (https://imgur.com/sLhg0Kj)

The Red Gods continue to smile upon me here. Sharpies yesterday, ruffies today.

[hugh rather]

The Lang reminds me of the 20 pinfire Lang from a Rodger Barlow article in an early 70's Gun Digest.I drooled over that gun even as a teen.

[Lloyd McKissick]

The Lang didn't make it this year, sadly. I didn't have room because of all the other guns I was bringing up (multiple hunts and States this year. A good problem to have, I know). Next year will hopefully be simpler and it will join the fray up here again.

[Lloyd McKissick]

http://i.imgur.com/gdiX0s3h.jpg (https://imgur.com/gdiX0s3)

Another good day here.