As far as the Parker Gun Foundation Banquet and the First Parker Gun Hall of Fame Induction event is concerned, there is very little time left to get your check to Allan Swanson in the amount of $125 per person.... after March 20th it goes to $150 per person.

Give him a call first at 802-885-1152 or email him at ahs482@sover.net
Mail your check made to the Parker Gun Foundation and send it to Allan at 482 Skyline Drive, Weathersfield, VT 05156.

I emailed the first article to you about twenty minutes ago.

Best, Dean

Thanks, Dean. I got my check mailed in right away. Glad you mentioned the deadline.

I had never read through this thread before and a lot of posting has occurred on related subjects in the last 11 years, but I though I would add a quick note.

I own a steel barreled back action gun from around 1869. It has a 12 gauge barrel and chambers but the only info available for the research letter was that it was sent back to the factory in around 1901 to be rechambered for "modern" paper shells. It had originally chambered for the 12B cartridge. The bore diameter of those guns was nearly the same as the shell case diameter. This presented a essentially straight bore with no forcing cone.

I suspect a lot of the first model guns were for the brass 12 gauge shell. A lot of these could be mistaken for 13 gauge.

I will also note that of all the 12 and 10 lifters I own, this is the only one with a true bore dimension. All the other 12's and 10's are either 11 or 9 gauge. These are up through the early 80's guns when, according to TPS, the switch was made to true bore gauge barrels unless ordered otherwise.

Art, I wish Richard Hoover could have measured your chambers and bores.





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Sure miss him. His PP articles are among my favorites

Dean, did Richard Hoover pass? Gary

I don’t know Gary but he had offered several times to measure peoples’ Parkers in the Parker/Smith tent at Southern events.





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