I was surprised that the article in the 1913 American Machinist on Parker Brothers shotgun barrel-making didn't address anything about the doll's head extension. The closest it came was discussing fitting and matting the rib.





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All the while reading this,the question you answered in the last sentence was on my mind. I have always enjoyed my skill of visualizing a good engineering drawing, or mechanical description. This was one of those :vconfused: moments. It boggles the mind how things which were once right can be so wrong.

You are not kidding Edgar..I realized after I posted it that I didn't include that info. Which would have been your first question :rotf::rotf:

Well, a possible solution has been proposed. Since the chambers are in bad shape, someone either ground a ring in the right chamber, or a hull rusted in it. Briley's chamber inserts tubes could be used, the ones that are approx. 14" long, to go from 16 to 20 ga., or 16 to 28 ga . I would much prefer 20 ga.
There would still have to be a lot of work to be done at the breech.
These might then be able to be fitted to my other 16ga O grade hammer gun, making it a 2 barrel set. The other gun sports 26" and is extremely nice.
The wall thickness was .033 to.035, but there was a lot of concern as to whether there might be tiny pits much thinner. Of course full length tubes could be fitted . There would be a lot of work fitting it to the new gun. So going to explore the possibilities before giving up on it.

Of you want a long barreled gun, you are better off using the ribs from that set of barrels and building a new set via sleeving construction using another monoblock. The breech on that barrel set looked absolutely hammered.

Brian, yes ,they have been beat on with a vengeance. Just trying to figure how to salvage those 34" barrels, other than use them for tomato stakes.

Sleeving would be a way to keep the 34" barrels , actually you could sleeve them even longer if you wanted .

I was reading a article recently about barrel sleeving in England . The author said that they will sleeve barrels for clients who have been cut off and want them brought back to their original length , or clients who want longer barrels .

My primary thought at this point is... why bother?





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Maybe someone wants a long barreled 16 ga really bad lol , though there would be cheaper base guns to use for that I suppose .

Exactly. If they're no longer an original set of Parker barrels, what's the point?

These things are called money pits for a reason.

Sorry, but it's a parts gun, sell off the parts, someone may want the barrels for the ribs and be done with it.

Just messing around today, 90° plus outside. Snap those 34-inch barrels on my other 16 gauge hammer gun. You can see the Gap at the face almost two mm at the bottom. Sure would be fun to swing those 34s on some sporting clays targets. really missed going to Ernie's and then southern this year was hoping to get some ideas, I've had people inquire about the barrels but I'm not ready to get rid of them yet. If I make it to rock mountain or the Vintagers, I will be sure and bring it with me.

The original barrels are 26"