Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich Anderson
(Post 84423)
The V grade replacement barrels might hurt it some but they are documented in the letter.
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I can't find any mention of them in the letter.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
(Post 84487)
When discussing the fluid steel barrels on this B Grade 20, posters seem to forget or not know that these barrels were installed at Remington by Parker Gun Works employees and have factory markings. They are factory original. With two sets of Remington repair codes, I doubt that any work done on the gun was done by anyone other than Parker Gun Works employees.
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I looked in
The Parker Story, page 158 and the picture provided by Eric above. I interpret one repair code as
RJ3, which I translate as meaning the repair or alteration or whatever was done in November of 1940. The
3 in
RJ3 has no lookup chart in TPS that I can find.
The other repair code
XP3 I can only translate that the work was done in November, the
P not being in the year codes. Am I misreading the
P? Is it a B (1955)?
The "V Grade 20 gauge" stamped on the lug matches the protocol shown in the picture of the lug of the D grade 20 on page 162, which is in the chapter about Parker/Remingtons.
In TPS I can't find any examples of the serial number stamped in the same location as on Eric's gun. But there aren't very many pictures of Parker/Remington barrel flats either. I don't own any Remington Parkers and so don't have any examples to compare this to.
On page 129 in TPS they discuss reports of aftermarket ejectors by third parties and give an apparently first hand account of a BH, serial number 79051. with non-standard ejectors.
The pictures of Eric's knuckle and forend iron look identical to my Parker ejectors guns. The serial number on Eric's forend iron is in the same location as my ejector guns. The May 1 1901 patent date appears on Eric's forend iron in the same place as it does on my guns. It seems to me that someone would have had to tig weld up, re-stamp, re-case color, and re-patina the serial number in the forend iron or they started with a forend iron without a serial number on it like the Parker/Remington factory would have. Same thoughts on the water table. Seems to me unlikely that a rascal would go to all that trouble for such a high cost to low benefit ratio effort.
I don't know when Parker or Parker/Remington first started putting "Overload Proved" in an oval on the barrel flats or "Made in the USA" but there might be some time information there.
Eric that is a cool gun. Thanks for posting it here.
Best,
Mike
