Late Meriden GH 16g Skeet Gun
 

A local gentleman had me do some work on this beautiful little 16g. Parker Skeet gun. It is a No. 1 frame Extractor gun with straight grip and factory BTFE. It was made in 1936. The last year that Parkers were made in Meriden before the move to Ilion. It is not all too often that guns like this surface.

There was a crack from being dropped that started behind the upper tang and went down the upper border of the one checkering pattern on the wrist. The finish was very dry in many spots. The checkering was not bad, but the border was nearly gone.
I sured up the crack, freshened up the finish and cleaned up the checkering and cut nice new borders.

The thing that I really notice about these later guns versus the early guns is the engraving is very different in appearance. Though it is pretty much the same pattern, it has a different style and feel to it. Heavier lines for sure.

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Lovely gun- wish it were mine. I could break some birds in style!

The engraving on that gun has all the characteristics of engraving done by Robert Runge. That's why is looks so different - he had his own style, as did all engravers, but his style is deeper and a bit more open than that of his recent predecessors in the engraving department.

Is this 16 gauge marked Skeet In and Skeet Out on the barrel flats?

No it is not. It may not "technically" be a skeet gun, I just refer to it that way because of the additional features on the gun like straight grip and btfe. It is choked more M/M.

It is about everything I would want in a gun to suit my purposes, including the double triggers. I would simply use spreaders in the right tube or possibly both in the early season.

A great gun with very interesting features.

I have a VHE 16ga skeet gun and so marked but she's choked .010 & .012 more of a modified choke.

My VHE skeet 16 is not marked skeet and is reverse choked at 9 and 11 thous.

Rich - Interesting that there would be a 16 gauge skeet gun, given that 16 gauge is not one of the gauges shot in registered skeet