SILK PURSE OUT OF A SOW'S EAR?
 

Well, not really. Maybe a cotton purse. I'm admittedly a bottom feeder. But I get great satisfaction out of turning another man's junk into something very usable. This VH was a disaster. Worn checkering, three dents in the barrels, no finish, pinned and split head stock, no bluing on the barrels, and rusty inside from being hunted in the rain since 1916.

Dents removed with a set of pin gauges, a home rust bluing, cleaned all internal parts, polished the brown frame with Flitz, Nitre blued triggers, trigger guard, safety, and forend release and tip, and had my retired wood master recheckered the stock and finish it beautifully. Have $500 in it now. But with 28" VH barrels, .008 and .025 chokes it will be a great game gun. Yea, it's not high grade, and not restored, just refurbished, but it is as tight as a bank vault and is a perfect 107-year-old hunting gun.

You done well Jerry,

that looks ready for another 100+ years.

I’m working on a similar project that I’ll have to post some pictures of, I don’t have the skills to do most of the work like you.

Stan

It’s a beautiful gun to me, in part because of the backstory.

A very nice job Jerry!!





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Nice save

And it will hunt in the rain for another 100 years, nice job!

a well done jobyove turned that sows ear into the silk purse....fine looking gun...charlie

BEFORE
 

Not pretty.

But original.





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Yes. But enough rust inside to not work, dangerous barrel dents, busted stock head, so only fit for a wall-hanger.

It's a Parker, it's in good huntable condition so it's ready to do, what it was made to do.

It's beautiful! :D

I’m not much for “upgrades” but I love seeing a gun brought back to life in a way that’s true to the original. Nice job!

get some of those oll 410 adapters that are about 12 inches long and shoot that thing....charlie

Charlie,

I'll be shooting it with one ounce 12 gauge loads. There is no doubt it could handle more.

That's how you do it. Less is more.

What was the reasoning for bluing the forend hardware?

Well done Jerry. Enjoy

Looks good. I too love saving neglected Parkers

It was so rusty from having been used in the rain and never cleaned; as you know bluing is used as a rust preventative, so i put the safety button and forend hardware in with the triggers and trigger guard, as well as the sear pin, and a few other pieces into the nitre bluing. Left the receiver polished as it had so much patina on it I thought it would never be cleaned. It is a nice rainy-day gun now with a little protection. There was no case-coloring left on a single piece. See the pictures on page one. These make nice gifts for a youngster whom I feel can appreciate them as I grow old and unable to hunt.

Well done Jerry.