Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

[Elvin Ehrhardt]

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I found this advertised on an auction as a Parker Brothers 410 shotgun, with Damascus barrels and it says lifter action which is obviously not correct. Looking closely it does have the reminisce of Damascus barrels for the first 3 or so inches from the breach, but installed ahead of those are clearly rifle barrels and sights. They don’t provide pictures of the water table or barrel flats. I’ve never seen anything like this before!

[John Allen]

A really bad sleeving job where someone tried to make a 410 or double rifle out of a larger gauge gun. It is junk now unless someone has a set of barrels that could be fitted properly to the action. Even then it is not worth much.

[Andy]

That's gonna give me night terrors

[Dean Romig]

I wonder what caliber it is now chambered and barreled for?





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[GH-16]

Someone's attempt at making a Parker into a double rifle. The picture of the muzzle end shows the rifling grooves. I wonder what caliber it is?

I would call this a run, don't walk gun. Run away from it as fast as you can, unless it's free and you want it as a conversation piece in your gatherings.

[Elvin Ehrhardt]

Yes I agree with you all. I assume the chamber of the Damascus sleeves were bored out to accept the fluid steel rifle chamber. I wouldn’t think someone would be foolish enough to try to handle rifle chamber pressures in an unsleeved Damascus chamber. Anyway the thing caught my attention as very unusual. I also meant to include that the serial number was 64503 which dates to 1891.

[J. A. EARLY]

It appears to be a GH grade. If the owner thinks it is a .410 it may shoot .410 slugs very well. If cheap enough, it would be an interesting gun to shoot slugs. Or it may have been chambered for .45 Long Colt. The barrels sleeved to the large chambers are probably ok to handle anything you could shoot in it. I find it interesting, and refinished it would be a unique Parker.

[B. Dudley]

.410 Parkers are hot right now.

[edgarspencer]

A while back, there was a shop in Maine doing double rifle conversions. As I recall it was either 32-40, 38-55 or 45-70.
My initial thought was that a Parker wouldn't be my choice because of only one lockup. Those cartridges originated as black powder cartridges, and most factory ammo was very mild because of their possible use in older BP guns.
I've never seen one of these conversions in the flesh, but more than one (Including Bill Jr.)have told me they were first class, and one I know was a Parker that had hundreds of rounds through it, and still on face. Walter Eiserer is a close friend, and he was G&H principal 'smith for many years. He grew up and apprenticed in Austria, and knows his way around guns more so than anyone I know. He explained once when we were talking about double rifles and combo guns, that the lock up was second to how robust the hinge was.
I'm somewhat at a loss how one can say it's a terrible sleeving job from one picture. I'd sure like to see what the chamber area looked like. Is the rim in the original monoblock, or new barrel?
Personally, I'd love to have another DR in 9.3x72.

[Reggie B]

Edgar you are a fountain of knowledge my friend.