Jeff - Those pics are very cool. I am continually amazed at the lengths PB would go to please the customer. I wonder how much was charged for that work? The work on my gun's extension was done gratis.

Gotta love a pigeon gun. Nice!

DLH

Good grief, Jeff, you learn something new every day. Maybe some other owners of guns without extensions can give them a close look with a magnifier.

Jeff, how do those two guns letter? My DH pigeon gun, #107,822, letters as made with no extension or safety, and the receiver was never cut for an extension. This is a great fix for a non ejector gun with a destroyed extension.

Bill,
I haven't lettered the Dh gun. The vh 20 was ordered by O. W. Gaines, Meriden Ct. on 2/29/04. Half pistol grip, cylinder and mod, 28" barrels. Special requests include no extention and no safety. Its price was $50. DAH is 2 1/2".

Jeff,
Thanks for the info and great pics. It would be my guess that all frames were cast for the dolls head extension and filled like your two if requested that way. I think Bill should take a strong loop and look very closely at his gun to see if it were not filled in as yours were. Three and a half hours left to 2003, I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2010.

"Three hours left in 2003"? Larry you shouldn't celebrate and type at the same time as you seem to be receding into history.:bigbye:

Starting the new year and a new decade with a day off, a Parker shotgun and a couple of bird dogs....excellent:bigbye:

Larry, I looked at the top and breech face of my receiver and see no sign of a filled in extension cut. What do others see?

A former professor at the nearby university has a vhe with no extension or safety,straight grip and the trigger guard tang is checkered also. I looked at it real hard and I couldn't tell if the checkering was aftermarket or not. Kind of neat.

Rich,
You got me there. Yesterday was quite a day starting with hunting the last day of deer season in a snow storm. The good news was we put two more deer in the freezer including my grandsons first of the year. The bad news was a trip to the emergency room for my son to tend to the compound fractures in his right ankle from a fall on some ice.

Bill,
Based on your observation I guess Parker made their frames with and without the dolls head cavity. I had assumed the frames were cast with the cavities in the casting and later machined to finished specs. If some guns had no cavity at all then Parker either made two different frame castings or they were all cast without the cavity and it was later machined from the solid. I'm sure Austin has some knowledge of how this was accomplished at the factory and perhaps he will share his thoughts here.