WONDERFULLY REFINISHED GH ON GUNBROKER
 

take a look at gunbroker auction #280297134...

one of the best parker refinish jobs ever?

I believe this should be posted in the for sale forum and not here?

My take on the ad is that the case colors and barrel finish are original, only the wood has been refinished.

Too much purple in the cae colors.
The barrels should be black and white, NOT brown!
Very nice wood.

A very poor attempt at restoring a Parker!

:):):)

April Fools, right?

Yup... April Fools...

Sorry guys,

I was fooled because considering the starter of this post I thought it might have been one of his guns for sale!

Mark

Nice looking but not what left the factory. CC aren't 'right', borders of checkering aren't right, barrels don't look right. !30 pictures and $8K, what rock have I been sleeping under?

hit may not be pur fect, but ah still likes hit!

it never ceases to amaze me how there seem to be a few consistantly nasty people out there...

do any you expert critics care to post pitchers of a better re do job, so us mere mortals may be enlightened and thereby achieve your level of magnificence?

Are you trying to pull our legs?

No Mark it's called trolling. Hoping someone will stumble on to one of his jewels while surfing through Gunbroker to find the finest restoration in the land.

That's what I tought at first! Then, Dave reminded all that it was April Fools day.

Isn't TROLLING illegal?

bft: just curious, how many legs do you have? six or eight?

Ed, that should make a wonderfully nice addition to your collection.

Well, there's nothing "right" about it as far as an original Parker goes but it is a purty gun with nice wood, though the bbls would look far better in black and white vs browned.... Funny he says there has been no gunsmithing done when it's a total restoration and has Briley 20ga tubes in it. Do they just slip in and out? You can see the floorplate shrinkage from the recasing, but I've seen FAR worse on a gun Trigg had that he eventually gave away to some deserving friend.

george: interesting fishin analogy...what you are sayin here is too lure em with somebody else's bait, hopin they will see yours as well and like hit better? dont seem to me like you would catch many fish that way. what has been your experience using that technique?

hole: i dont collect. dont have the room nor the inclination. besides, i am a deal junkie...wana make a deal?

:corn:

Serious Quest
 

Time for a serious albiet a novice question. I have heard a lot about Briley tubes. How the heck do they work. I asume it is to allow you to shoot a gun with to thin, unsafe Damascus barrels? What secures them in the gun? I would assume you still would want to shoot low pressure shells to keep from pounding the wood.

Somone please educate me.

Thanks!

Larry I had a set of Full Length Briley Tubes in a Parker 28 Ga. to resize the gun to shoot 410 ,they were also ejector tubes ,they slid full length into the gun and all you had to do is line the Tube slots up with the guns ejectors and they would even eject the spent 410 Hull ,they weren't fastened in ,they ride on the lip of the original larger gauge of the gun where the Brass sets when the gun is loaded ! As you had said ,they could also be used if the original Barrels weren't in shooting condition ! Russ

larry: i have some experience with briley tube sets in older guns; mostly damascus or twist steel barrelled guns where the pitting was too deep, or the barrel walls were too thin for me or my gunsmith to feel that it would be safe to shoot with any ammo, regardless of pressure.

tubes can be custom fit to a gun or just slipped in as brush buster described above. slip fit or so called universal tube sets seems to work ok for newer guns where the barrel specs are consistent with saami specs, which were adopted by domestic firearms manufacturers in the mid '20's. as buster also indicated, these relatively lose fit tubes will some times ride up when extracting fired shells. the extractor or ejector rod of the gun is supposed to just pull up the tube extractor and the shell. sometimes though, the tube comes up as well. a fix for this problem is to paint the exterior of the tube in the forcing cone area with your wife or girl friend's least favorite nail polish. this glues the tube to the barrel, just enough to keep the tube from riding up and yet making it possible for you to remove the tube if necessary. removing tubes is not recommended, as i have noticed they do seem to fire form to the barrel.

now custom fit tubes are a different matter. when properly installed they are a much tighter fit. no nail polish required here. however, the barrels usually have to be altered in two areas. the chambers have to be lengthened to 2 3/4 inches and the chokes have to opened to a couple of thousands larger than the od of the tube, so the tubes can be hammered in for a snug fit. these alterations should not cause a problem, as once the tubes are installed, there is no common reason to remove them.

as you indicate, low press shells are always a good idea for older guns, in order to preserve the old, brittle and often oil soaked wood.



hope this helps. ed