Balls

[Bruce Day]

Some have them, some don't.

[David Holes]

Looks like all them balls come with hammers. Nice. Dave

[Bruce Day]

I think to use the proper terminology, only the hammer guns had true ball grips, in that a ball grip has a radius greater than the upper grip area. The internal hammer guns had what Parker called a half pistol grip, one with a rounded grip end that did not have an expanded radius. I don't know that any internal hammer guns had a true ball grip, although of course I'm sure one could be special ordered. Lots of hammerless small bores , especially the 410's and 28's, had half pistol grips.

Bruce Day, still learning to be a Parker novice

[Mark Conrad]

Over the years PB used different terms for the 1/2 pistol or ball grip. In the early records, stock books, just pg was used for ball grip where cpg was used for capped pistol grip. In the order books, the term 1/2 pg was used. In the late stock books the term ball is used vs CPG for the capped pistol grip. For straight grip guns the straight line, _____, was used for straight grip. In the latter stock books stg was used.

The early guns which clearly had a ball were not referred to as ball grip and the latter guns where the ball was a more rounded affair were referred to a "ball". The 1/2 pg guns were the least common grip until the .410 came out. For some reason they made a very large number of .410's in the ball grip.

Mark