A grade 3 that is a bit unusual!
 

Here is a hammer gun grade 3, that has some unusual features that are not found on normal grade 3's, this gun has Bernard barrels, I understand that only 2 grade 3 guns were made with Bernard barrels, also the gun has the gold oval on the pistol grip, this you would normally find on grade 5 or 6 guns. The gun is on a 1 frame,with SSBP, I have not sent for a letter on the gun, at present the barrels are 28" and IC/IC, I believe that two inches have been cut from the barrels , still a nice grouse gun, for close work, gun is a bit different thats why I bought it, Gary

That is a great gun. Grade 3 lifter with check hook and new style firing pins. Very nice. Thank you for sharing!

Wow!

mighty nice gun...charlie

I'm having heart palpitations! What a beauty!

Gary
You have some very nice Parkers , this lifter is a head turner , who did the work on the gun ?, or is it original? , also case colours are the very best.
You have a great eye for hammer guns.
Dave Kerns 1691

David, Brad Batchelder did the restoration, Gary

I cant hit the like button enough for this one. Mr C thanks again for sharing this one with us.

I cannot stop looking at this gun, absolutely gorgeous. As a matter of curiosity, what is the turn-around time on a restoration of this quality?

Gary six months to a year at best, sometimes longer but it is worth the wait in my humble opinion, Gary

Gary please tell us the year of manufacture on this Parker.





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Dean it is 34thousand something I will look today Gary

Dean, as far as we know, this is only the second grade 3 lifter with Bernard barrels that has surfaced. The one in the Parker Story is about 4,500 guns earlier.

Gary, When I was researching guns with Bernard barrels I found, I believe, only two of them... are there more or is that it, just two?

And then the 20 ga with Bernard barrels.....:whistle:





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Dean, I believe that is all that I know of but with Parkers you never know, sorry I did not get back to you yesterday but we got caught up with bottling wine , we bottled 110 bottles yesterday, we are doing 300 bottles for Carmichael Const Co's 50th anniversary march 5th I have a letter I believe that came with the gun when I bought it, I will look it up this Morning while it is snowing here, tell me more about that 20 with bernards, hmmm. gary

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someone please rotate this for me, thanks gary

Here ya go Gary.

Gary - Congratulations on your 50th Anniversary. What a wonderful milestone and a great legacy. Did you start the company 50 years ago?

I know nothing about the 20 ga. other than I found it in the Serialization book when I was researching Bernard guns.

my congratulations also on the 50 th...lots of hard hours of work in 50 years yall have a good celerbration...charlie

Dean, Yes

What a beauty!