Parker DHE Year of Manuf?
 

Could someone assist me in determining what year my gun was made. I attempted the serial# lookup but, had no success or just doing something incorrectly, I'm sure that's it!

This Beautiful shotgun was a family heirloom that just recently got passed down to me, Love Parkers but don't know much about this one, any help would be great!

Thank You.

The serial# is 237039.

1936 I believe. (edited)

It is a Remington era Parker and may have been made in the Remington plant in Illion, NY.
It has all of the external features, including the wider front of the forend than the more tapered style we associate with those made in Meriden. It looks to be a very nice DHE. Congratulations!!





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Thank You! I also, do not know what the little slide mechanism is next to the trigger, I guessing some type of "Release Trigger." I'm not exactly sure how they operate. Thanks again.

Jeff

It has a selective single trigger. You can switch which barrel fires first by moving it.

It is the barrel selector which determines which barrel is fired first when the trigger is pulled.

Thanks to all of you for the Quick replies! I go to Yuma every year for the opening of Dove season and this fine gun is Definitely going with me, thanks again.

When you select which barrel fires first you are actually selecting which choke will be your first choice.





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That gun is killer! It does not get much better than that.

Wonderful family heirloom!!

We need to see a good picture of the barrel flats. The Remington era Parker shotguns will have a Remington date code on the barrel flats. The code is usually pretty tight against the base of the lug on the left barrel flat. This gun very close to yours is from May 1935 --

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That DHE is absolutely stunning!