Over 300 rural folks attended, at least the booth ladies told me they had passed out 300 bidders numbered cards- The Parker VH was NOT a 16, but a 12- 30" Vulcan barrels choked F&F and with, I assume, 2 & 5/8" chambers- barrels uncut, 85% blue, no dents or dings, 100% bores both barrels, and "rang true"; no loose ribs, original sight. stock intact both forearm and pg butt-stock with Parker Dog Black bake-lite butt-plate- no dead bird in its mouth, top heel spur, flat top wood screws with minor rust flecking, 13 & 1/2" LOP from the front trigger!
3" DAC, 3.5" DAH, someone had shaved down the straight line comb from the fluting about half way from aprox. midpoint to the heel top, where the butt-plate spur is inlet- giving it a "Schweinenruck" Germanic look, that means "Hog-back", and a cheap worn leather lace on pad had stained the rearmost area of the butt-stock.
A somewhat- unusual pad, as most every leather lace-on butt-pads I have seen to date had the laces and eyelets on the bottom, this one had them on the right hand barrel side of the gun, as installed.
No 2 frame, weight stamp is 4 and smaller 4 ;pre-struck weight of 4 lbs. & 4 ounces I believe, and had a capital K for the barrel maker's stamped ID- All serial numbers matched, top lever to right of TDC on the top tang strap, un-boogered screws and seemed to be properly "clocked"--
Now for the un-good part- with the gun closed and fully cocked, and on empty chambers, when the Safety slide is at the rear position, you can put pressure on either trigger and it will not fire. But as soon as you slide it forward, the right barrel sear lets go and the hammer falls.
Then if you then move it back to Safe and repeat this, then the left sear lets go and the left barrel hammer falls. Nicht zer Gut!!I passed on bidding on this, uncertain as to the cost of repairing, and also because I have both a 12 30" VHE mfg. 1929, and a 12 Trojan 28" made in 1924. It sold for $1900 w/o any buyer's premium, as was the case with all the many other items, including 6 other guns, sold.
There was also a Remington 721 BA in 30-06, with a Lyman or Stith Alaskan 7/8" dia scope in 2.75 power in an Echo side mount- solid, not a tip-over- No one could figure where the bolt release was on this older rifle, and it did not have the Mauser style long extractor as did the 1903 Springfield and it's many clones: Winchester Model 54 and Model 70. This showed signs of hard field use, the bore was good, had original iron sights and sling swivel clips, period steel BP-it sold for $1325.00 Way over what I would have paid for it, if I needed an older scoped Bolt rifle in 30-06 Springfield caliber.
