The seller ended the auction early, but there is no buyer listed. If it was in fact sold to someone, it was an "off auction" sale. I requested the muzzle photos that were posted at the end of the auction. With the discrepancy over the listed and current barrel length, and upon seeing that the rib matting does not abate for that last 1/8" of the rib, the preponderance of the evidence strongly suggests that the barrels have been cut. As for those "vice" marks on the end of the butt, I recently had a walnut blank milled by a well known stock inletting company in Missouri and it returned with very similar marks on the unfinished stock butt. That would also seem to suggest that the stock is not factory original, though it is well mated to the metal. It is hard to fathom that Parker would have let a C grade go out the door in that condition. It is more likely that it was restocked and the final stages of fitting a recoil pad or butt plate were, for some long forgotten reason, left unfinished. I would be curious to know whether the seller did in fact sell this Parker, or whether he discovered some defect or other condition that caused him to close the auction early rather than disclose it.
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