bill the old gal deserves a breath of fresh air...take her hunting soon if nothing else try her at the 70 yard line with a paper plate as a target...with no 6 shot if you can..boy do i like talking and hearing about these old big guns.... charlie

When I was at the last gun show in Syracuse, I picked up 3 Parkers to look at that ended up being monoblocked. Very good jobs. A couple were reasonably priced for the condition and grade as shooters. I was just surprised at how many I came across in just a few isles of walking.

Probably a good number of Lefever sleeve jobs were done for locals. Can you tell us whether these guns had Parker ribs and what the roll stamp markings were?

It's an 'I' and it stands for Idiot - there couldn't be any more of these out there (could there?).

Thanks Kevin-
You know......
I know we are supposed to be positive on this forum, but when i see people who post and want to RESTORE a perfectly livable/shootable/collectible Parker and they ask our advice i want to scream.
I wish i had the power of imminent domain on undeserving owners.

DO NO HARM. That should be our motto.
I'm sorry- i'm too old to be politically correct. I will crawl back in my cave now.

Mr. Murphy,

Please consider bringing that D grade ten you speak of to the Fall Southern. I would very much like to see that gun.

Kevin George who are you calling an idiot. Make your posts clearer. From what I read your the idiot's I don't think anybody said anything about restoring the gun? Oh to bad the worlds people do not have your large brains we would not be in the trouble were in. Ditto my first post to all you swells

I do not speicfically recall if all of them had parker ribs. I do not remember seeing mismatched ribs jumping out at me.

Brian, I attend an enormous number of shows in the DC and PA every year and don't see a nice sleeved Parker once in five years. A good Lefever sleeved gun is a piece of double gun history. My DH is the first Lefever magnum ten I have ever seen or heard of.

it sure is the first one ive ever heard of too... bill maybe some day the rest of us guys will get to see this fabled gun espically me... charlie