A Parker Bros. Pump Gun?
 

Earlier this week I visited the Cody Firearms museum in Cody Wyoming. If you go prepare yourself for sensory overload as they claim to have 4200 guns in their collection. The guns in glass cases combined with poor lighting made taking good photographs near impossible. I pulled out a drawer in the P section of their Gun Library and ran into something I have never heard about, a Parker Bros. Redfield Pump Shotgun. It's a prototype and very plain. The museum said it is from the 1932 to 1940 era. Who can tell us more about it?

Pete, check in The Parker Story when you’re back home. I think I remember mention of this short-lived experinent.





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Parker Pump Shotgun
 

Pete, try TPS Vol II Pages 462-464. Were you able to get a look at the breech bolt / ejection area of the receiver? The diagram on page 462 makes the bolt look pretty unique.

It is mentioned in TPS, but all that is shown is a drawing done by Hayes. I do not think that this prototype at Cody was known of by the authors or it would have been included.

I have often wondered what ever happened to any efforts on that project of Hayes. As I figured he would have gone father into it than just a drawing.


I will have to try to inquire with Cody about some details on that gun.

I only looked at it briefly because there were so many guns to look at. The action was closed so I didn't notice anything unusual. It's hard to really examine any gun closely and even harder to take any pictures due to reflection from the glass and the poor lighting.

Do you or anyone know what the Redfield in the name was about? I associate the name Redfield with Marlin guns and I believe they make scopes. I am wondering if this example is a one of a kind like the Trojan Skeet Gun. Note that it was/is on loan from Remington Arms.

I did not notice that on the tag. Interesting. That gun was not in the remington museum previously. But it would make sense that any Parker pump gun prototype would have stayed with the company and went on to remington at the move.

I know what you mean about the reflection on the glass and poor lighting, I took a picture of the Annie Oakley guns on display at Cody and was disappointed.

We visited the museum on Sunday, on the weekends there are no curators at the gun museum to ask any detailed questions, assuming they would know something about any particular gun since they have thousands on display. I noticed the museum staff present were moving between the different museums in the Cody complex. The one I spoke to didn't seem too knowledgeable about guns. It was later that I saw him in the Buffalo Bill museum and then the Western Art museum.

As good as I've ever been able to do there --

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