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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Dylan, in response to your numbered questions/suppositions:
1. Replacing 26" barrels with 28" barrels would have had nothing to do with the balance point or the overall weight of the gun. Parker Brothers would balance a gun perfectly regardless of the length of the barrels simply by filing/carding off metal as barrel length was increased.
2. We can't make that assumption without support of a PGCA Research Letter.
3. Same answer as number 2.
4. Parker Brothers did not make a practice of using Roman Numerals in place of the Arabic numerals that are in common use today.
5. Get a PGCA Research Letter on your gun. Anything other than that which the letter supports is mere supposition and assumption.
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Thanks Dean, Makes sense. Would the rib roll stamping support that wherever the barrel came from, it was made before the change of the roll stamp in mid 1918’ish?
Edit: I did obtain a research letter. It indicates the gun was manufactured originally with 26” barrels. I’m trying to understand how the current barrels came to be with the correct serial number(is that a thing Parker would do), whether or not that work was done by Parker based off of barrel flat markings, and any approximate timing for their creation based on available markings. I agree, the exact origins of how we went from 26-28 is fun speculation at best. I probably should have been more clear on my ask.