[B. Dudley]

Another active thread touches on frame sizes for 10g. and 8g. And I was wondering about the larger frame sizes.

The Parker Story lists frame size tables on page 527.

Frame sizes up to 7 are listed for barrel breech dimensions from actual factory documentation. And a table showing actual frame dimensions were compiled by the authors as taken from actual found guns.



The following are based on my personal observations only:

Regarding 10g. guns, They are commonly found on 2 and 3 in hammer and hammerless and 4 frame in hammer guns and 6 frame in hammerless.

8g guns were built on 6 frame hammerless and 7 frame hammer guns.




The tables in TPS show the existence of frame size 5 as well. And the author's table lists 5 frame as being used for 8g. And that 7 frame was used for both 10 and 8g. The text in TPS does state that the data on the 5 frame was taken from one found gun in 10g which was a hammer gun. They mention hammer guns in 8g. being found on both 6 and 7 frame. And even a hammerless 8g. on a 7 frame. The text also mentioned an 8 frame being "rumored" to have been made. I am not sure what these rumors were. But there was not any physical evidence or documentation to support it.

I am wondering what other guns members on this board may have seen or owned in 5 frame and 7 frame sizes. Those seem to be the two least often encountered sizes that were made.