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Originally Posted by Jim DiSpagno
I had a Grade 2 14?ga hammergun with 32" tubes. It lettered that way and according to Brad Bachelder, the chambers were professionally sleeved with steel to 16 ga and was so well done, it was difficult to detect. Gary Carmichael patterned the gun at 40 yds and it patterned like a backboard 16 ga. That gun now resides on the West Coast last I heard.
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A chimera at best; well-meaning modifications have taken some of the rarest of the rare guns (not just Parkers) into a carnival sideshow type of curiosity and desirability based on almost-iron-clad provenance from various sources. One can only speculate on the true value of the original piece had on one messed with it. Great examples are the Colt SAAs in the specific SN range of those issued to the 7th Cavalry a year or so before the Battle of the Little Bighorn.