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well said bill... bill is tellin you straight... charlie
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09-07-2012, 08:39 PM
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That is a well stated response. Bill, in a lifetime of cornering the market on most orphaned Parker Bros. barrels could probably tell us two or three positive stories!!
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09-07-2012, 09:28 PM
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Bill and I have certainly been "victims of the fury" over the years! My most recent heartbreak came when I finally got all the metalwork completed on a great little 16 ga. DH Damascus gun, only to have the stock break completely in two through the wrist!! I was so disgusted I put the wreckage in a plastic tub and sold the whole thing for salvage at our most recent local gun show. The first guy who looked at it bought the whole thing; his classic comment was, "I can always use parts!". May the Force be with him.
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09-07-2012, 09:53 PM
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I've had three sets of orphaned Parker barrels snap right onto a gun as if they were made for it but that is just plain dumb luck. I wouldn't buy a barrelless gun expecting ever to find a set of barrels that would fit with a good deal of persuasion from a very qualified smith, much less a set that just snaps right on... this just 'never' happens.
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09-08-2012, 01:52 AM
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I don't mean to be contrary, but I bought a 1 1/2 frame 12 ga Vh with a straight stock that was in excellent condition along with a number 2 frame forend for $200. Bobby Bray some years later was selling a lot of Parker parts that he got from a retired gunsmith. He had a 1 1/2 frame 30 in barrel for sale for 4 or 5 hundred dollars and the serial number was 1000 off from the receiver so I gambled foolishly and bought it . Much to my surprise it fit just like it was fitted by my Gunsmith in Ellijay. The Gunsmith told me I was very very lucky. The gun works perfectly with no matching serial numbers.
The next set of Barrels I bought, was from a Super Honest member here that said the Trojan 20 gauge barrels he had were not being used and that he had just had them re-blued. Well I bought those and sent them to be fitted and low and behold some one had cut too too much metal off trying to fit them without a gunsmith. That cost me more than the $400 too good to be true Trojan barrels to get them fixed. That was my last barrel purchase thinking it could have been worse. |
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I have not tried to match shotgun parts such as barrel to receiver but I have a few times regarding rifles. After a few times doing this I have found that I never got my money back out of it because though the gun shot well it was a mix of different numbered parts and nobody wanted it except as possibly a parts gun of their own. My most recent example was a Pre 64 Winchester 70 Featherweight receiver, a standard barrel and a stock I had purchased at a gun show. I had a gunsmith put it all together for me and it consisently shot 3/4 inch groups with handloads. When I needed to sell it nobody cared how it shot, only that the parts were mismatched. I suspect shotguns would be the same. Lots of time and money put into a gun to get it to shoot well only to have a clunker when trying to sell it.
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i have one of those mismatched numbers gun i call it the johney cash gun it being made of so many differant parts...but i tell you its one pretty looking little 20 ga and points like my arm..i even added a differant forearm release myself one off a high grade gun.gives the little g grade parker a little class...im well satisfied with well mismatched parts..thanks to russ jackson for putting this little 20 ga together and sellin it it to me... charlie
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09-08-2012, 06:03 PM
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It's nice to hear positive stories about barrel fittings. All my shots have been in the negative, painfully negative the last time I tried it.
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On GB right now there is a 16ga VH receiver without barrels or forearm. I would love to buy it and find/buy a set of barrels for it. All you more experienced collectors- how hard is that to do and is it worth it? If I can find barrels how hard are they to fit? For those who have completed this project was it worth it in the end?
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