A Montana Gem
 

This gun came from Montana, according to the letter, some good photos of the laminated barrels, frame, animals, and the gun, I will post two photos at a time due to the size, Oh I almost forgot! The gun is a 20 gauge lifter, 0 frame with lightning cuts, 28" barrels. Gary

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Good Lord Gary that is splendid! It is with out a doubt "if I could own only one Parker" that would be it. Thanks for showing.

agreed - what a fantastic gun

Fabulous gun Gary! Words fail me....

But there's that P again on the barrel flats of those special Laminated Steel barrels.

Just an incredible gun!

Gary, did you have that one at the Hall of Fame Induction event?

The pattern on those barrels is just crazy.

Looks like "A Fox Gets the Game"!!

WOW! You find some real beauties!

Very nice Gary, makes me want to get my P barrels refinished.

OMG what a great gun!!! Thanks for posting.

Gary, You truly amaze me. What a fantastic Parker!

one pretty gun....charlie

That's why Gary is a Hall of Famer. Is this the only 20 gauge lifter Parker made?

No Mike. There were about twenty 20 ga. lifters made. I was just looking at some of Austin's notes an hour ago and he had a listing of all the 20 ga. hammer guns by serial number and all 20 ga. lifters by serial number too.

Every time I look through his reams of graphs, charts, plots, lists, etc., etc., I get dizzy...
The man was the consummate researcher - the man was a genius.

Ok. I thought I read in tps there was only 1. Thank you.

Truly a special gun....congrats !

very nice. I would love to just be able to shoot something that nice:bowdown:

First of all, what a magnificent lifter! Guns like this personify why so many of us are so hopelessly addicted to Parkers!

What grade is this particular one? Any idea how many were made in this grade?

I'm going to start saving now for one of the 20! Maybe in about 20 years I'll have enough saved up (but only if I stop lusting after every other Parker I see).:crying:

Dean, This gun is the only grade 3 with 28" laminated barrels and I believe the only grade 3 with laminated barrels made, According to my calculations a total of only 12 lifters were made in 20 gauge in all grades. According to an article in the Parker Pages 2010 Austin Hogan list 11- 20 gauge lifters archived prior to the introduction of the top lever. Approximately 55 top lever guns were produced in 20 gauge in all grades. So you see the 20 gauge lifter is a very rare gun in any grade. According to my figures They are as follows 1-A grade, 1- grade 4, 1-grade 3, 4- grade 2, 5-grade O. As with anything Parker you never know what will turn up and a lot of records are missing, but still the parker 20 gauge lifter is among the rarest Parkers made, Gary

Perhaps 20 years of savings won't be enough after all.

Gary, I agree that the 20 ga. lifter is among the rarest of all Parkers.

I'm going to dig through Austin's files tonight to see just exactly what he has on the 20 ga. Hammer guns.

I found Austin's research sheet on Parker Bros. twenty-gauge guns with exposed hammers.

There were 14 Lifter 20 gauge guns made, the highest grade, according to the document I have, were three Grade D3 guns and one L3 gun, ser. no. 15838 .

There were 32 Top Action 20 gauge guns made, the highest grade, according to the document I have, were four D3 guns an one one L(grade not shown) ser. no. 54851 .



And just for a bit of spice to this thread, here is the only picture I have of the gun Gary owned with the engraved extractor. What a work of art that gun is.




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We need a smiley face that drools.

NICE as always Gary