Experimental Ejector B Grade???
 

I have recently purchased a B Grade Parker that appears to have an experimental ejector system that has been installed after it left the factory,
However it does have patent stamps.
Has anyone heard of this or know anything about it?
Serial #97486
Thanks
Philip

Very interesting. Southgate ejectors? Could you show a picture of the top of the forend iron?

Here is another picture

According to the records this gun was manufactured in 1900, and the only mention I can find anywhere of Experimental Ejectors is on a 1930's Trojan Skeet gun which had experimental coil spring ejectors. Maybe this was the rough draft predecessor of that system?

Patd. Nov. 7, 1899, refers to Patent No. 636,650 granted to C.A. Fischer of Grand Forks, ND. You can look it up and read it on Googlepatents or at USPTO.gov


Several gunsmiths offered after-market ejectors for Parker Bros. extractor guns back in the day. Moran & Wolfersperger of Chicago were probably most common. After they broke up and Moran hooked up with F.P. Stannard, Gus Habich in Indianapolis offered the M&W ejector.

Sounds to me like this gun and a bit of research on C.A. Fischer could make a good Parker Pages article.

The patent for the Ejector
https://www.google.ca/patents/US6366...ed=0CBwQ6AEwAA

Im curious as to why this experimental "rough draft" was done on a B Grade. Even in 1899 this gun was worth more than a V for example... Why not butcher and experiment on a lesser grade gun?

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Phillip- do you have a PGCA letter on your gun?

My guess is that the gun may have belonged to Fischer at the time of the conversion. It would be interesting to learn who the gun was originally sold to.

and if you are a PGCA member the letter is a bargain.