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?