Painted parker lifter
My sight unseen, represented as a 12ga, lifter arrived today. I bought it as a parts gun and hoped it might be good enough to save as a shooter. I knew it had been painted but when I got into it what a suprise. On the out side it looked pretty much as advertised, broken stock with the most crude repair I have ever seen, and painted with a spray can, but it gets better. The inside of the action had been filled with "great stuff" expanding foam insulation, as you can imagine, nothing would move. So after 3 hours solvent and a brush it finally came apart. The final kicker, it's a 10ga, not a 12, on a #2 frame. The serial numbers on the action (7136) is different than the barrels (13206). Long story short, I will have someone that knows a lot more about these guns than I, to look at it and see if is a candidate for a shooter. The things people do to these wonderful guns blows my mind. I thought you guys might find this story amusing.
Carvel
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