I will buy a bore micrometer and vernier caliper for any of these guys who claim to have a rifled Parker, just to prove or disprove whether they were made at the factory from extra heavy barrel blanks, or whether they were standard barrels that were rifled from whatever steel was available in the barrel. I think the C Grade gun is a real factory gun because I saw it when I was a teenager in the early sixties and the owner at that time had connections with the Parker factory and maybe with the person whose name is engraved on the gun. The person who owned the C Grade when I saw it in the sixties actually has some transactions in Parker Brothers order book 101. The owner was a kind of neighbor of mine, forty miles or so. However, I have never heard of a rifled Parker with bore and tube diameter actually measured.
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