Here is a better picture, click on it to zoom in.

The rib reads: Parker Bros Makers Meriden Conn Decarbonized Steel

Saloons David... :whistle:





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Dean, I have a picture of my grandfather behind his "bar" in the prohibition era. He also operated a pigeon ring behind the building where the bar was operated. He also had a successful beer distributorship that exists to this day. When his obituary was published in the Hazleton, PA newspaper in 1929, he was described as the operator of a "cafe on Pine Street" and a "respected city councilman". Repeal of prohibition would come four years later.

Bill - I'll start a new thread in the Off Topic forum with pictures of some of my predecessors and a bit of history on them.





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I kept wondering if I was missing something regarding the serial number on the barrels. I wanted(really needed) to know if they were original to the gun.

After a bit of light work with a frontier pad on the barrel lug I was able to find the faint/worn serial number and....it's a match!

The gun was most probably cylinder bored on both sides, as it predates choke boring, so cut or not, it will likely shoot as it always did.

Edgar I look forward to finding out how it shoots and I'll bring it when we go shooting. I like the few guns I have that are choked cyl/cyl. This will be a nice one to get back in working order.

I had a 16 ga. Lifter that had been cut back from 28” to 24” so it effectively had no choke.
But that little gun could really account for itself on 35, 40 and longer yardage clay targets. I was always anazed by how this gun would smash targets waay out there.





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Seems to me I recall that gun pretty well. Never should have..... oh hell.

"An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force."

Newton's First Law says to me that a cylinder bore will alter the direction and spread less than a choked bore. I have patterned a couple guns that have had their barrels cut to an extent that NO choke exists. I was amazed to see that the pattern is very much tighter than a lightly choked bore, up to a point where air resistance also begins to affect it.

Some where in the writings of Michael McIntosh he says of an English gun that he used that was cyl/cyl that on high pheasants he had as much success as others using much tighter chokes. His conclusion was that we pay too much attention to choke and not enough to our shooting. I have a bad habit of over estimating range and once i realized it and used less choke was pleasently surprised with the results.