Little Technical Advice needed

[Russ Jackson]

Good Morning Gentlemen ,Have any of you guys ever had Repro Barrels fitted to your original Parker Guns ,is this a possibility ,it would be a nice way to have different chokes with your favorite gun ! :corn:

[Greg Baehman]

I haven't personally had a set of Repro barrels fitted to an original Parker Bros. gun, but a Parker Reproductions Price List from 1988 says they were available.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=99&pictureid=1020

[Don Kaas]

The radius at the lower rear of the Repro is said to be different from the originals. Fitting them is problematic according to a number of people I know who have tried.

[Russ Jackson]

Greg ,and Don ,Thank you for your replys ,just seems like a nice idea and at times they do become available ! Russ

[Bill Murphy]

There was a DGJ article about a guy who had Repro barrels installed on what I remember to have been a G Grade hammerless gun. The details are lost in space.

[Chris Travinski]

Russ,
I sold a set of 12 ga. repro barrels to a gun shop in Darlington SC, it was Darlington Gun Works I think. I asked him what he was going to do with them, he told me they regularly fit them to original Parkers in need. Might give them a call and pick their brains.

[John Campbell]

I've had "repro" Galazan barrels fitted to an original VH Parker. The most problematic area was the loop base. It was about 1/8 inch too high to work with an original forearm. Milling it down fixed things.

Best, Kensal.

[Dean Romig]

A word of caution... Before attempting to fit Repro barrels to an original Parker or any barrels from one Parker to another, be it an original or Repro Remove The Cocking Hook From The Barrel Lug First!!

[Dave Suponski]

So...Mr. Romig.....You really have learned that lesson...?

[Dean Romig]

Somehow I knew you would have some snyde remark about that unfortunate (and costly) incident... I just didn't think you'd pounce on it quite so quickly :shock:

[Dave Suponski]

You under estimate me Mr. Romig.....:whistle: But it was fun while it was here..:rolleyes:

[Russ Jackson]

Thank you all for the ideas ,I will look into this deeper ,Sorry it took so long for a Thank You Reply ,I just got in from Work , 12 14 AM . Thanks again ; Russ

[edgarspencer]

A word of caution... Before attempting to fit Repro barrels to an original Parker or any barrels from one Parker to another, be it an original or Repro Remove The Cocking Hook From The Barrel Lug First!!

Because they won't always un-latch?

[Bill Murphy]

That's it, Edgar. I tried barrels on Parkers for nearly fifty years before getting one stuck. However, it was truly stuck.

[edgarspencer]

That's what I figured, because to this day I remember how terrified I was when I took the 30" tubes off my dad's CHE and put them on his 26" BHE.
I was down in the gun room and he was upstairs. Shear panic. Fortunately, the gun would open fully, so there was adequate room to remove the hook screw, poke it out, and get them off.
That was probably 40 years ago, but I surely will never forget those 10 minutes seeing my short life pass before my eyes.

Someone asked me if the 26" tubes went on the CHE OK. Having narrowly dodged a horrible death, I never got that far. I can't remember if I ever fessed up to my dad, but since there was no harm in the end, I bet I didn't.

[Bill Murphy]

The "Dad" thing gives me the creeps. When I got a set of fluid steel barrels stuck on my favorite GH 20 gauge, there was no Dad around, but I still got chills thinking about what I had done. I could not get the screw exposed, so I had to take it to someone who could solve the problem. Russ Bickel got me out of my misery and I thank him for his sympathy and skill.

[Brian Dudley]

I have a set of ESC Vickers & Co. Barrels on my P grade. They are nice barrels and the fit is good. Only a little low in the dollshead area in relation to the receiver. However, I think the company that made them are long out of business.

I have actually seen two other guns with these type of barrels on them. One is a GH 20g. on GB now. And the other is in Ed Good's collection.

[edgarspencer]

They may be out of business Brian, but having been involved with British manufacturing most of my working career, I can say they go through more variations and iterations of their names. It's entirely possible they were bought, reorganized or otherwise reincarnated with another name, which likely may incorporate the Vickers name. The original Vickers name originated in the Sheffield area as metals manufacturers. Out of that company, many other Vickers groups were spawned including the gun manufacturer of WW1 fame. There were a few joint companies over here from Vickers parentage also; notably Sperry-Vickers, one of the only two US periscope manufacturers (the other being Kollmorgen)

[Richard Flanders]

Vickers made very nice microscopes that are right up there with Zeiss and Leitz of the same vintage. I just received a couple of vintage Vickers wave plates from the UK that will fit my Zeiss Jr polarizing scope. They are very nice plates and have a very desirable feature no one else incorporated. Definitely high quality keepers.

[edgarspencer]

Damn Richard, you reminded me of a trip I made to Detroit when I was a kid. My dad wanted me to go out to an auction at a big metallurgical lab and buy a photo-micrograph. I did, but got caught up in the auction enthusiasm, and also bought a Vickers Photo-micrograph, ca. 1935ish. Built like a work of art, polished brass, the works. Problem was, it took 5x7" sheet film, so was too expensive to use. But it sure was pretty to look at. I think I traded it for a steam engine.

[Richard Flanders]

I did a lot of my MS thesis petrography work on an ancient brass tubed Leitz scope that I found squirreled away in a cabinet in the pet lab. Prior to the digital photography revolution some folks I know used those 5x7 plate backs with polaroid film to take photomicrographs. I have a couple of the film holders on a shelf behind me. I just use an inexpensive digital camera to take pics of rock thin sections these days.

[edgarspencer]

Ain't technology great?

[ed good]

re: vickers barrels. the set on the gun i have for sale were proofed in italy.