Completed Gunbroker auction Parker VH #143000

Jawjadawg · 03-09-2013, 06:41 PM

I started watching this auction as soon as it came online. 14 day auction that started slowly but picked up some nice late action. I am new to Parkers, but I thought this gun looked like a really nice piece. I wonder who picked it up. My thought was that it was either restored, OR that the original owner might have protected the gun due to its nice round serial number #143000. I was hoping to bid on it, but forgot and wouldn't have approached the selling price anyway.

Anyway, now that this auction is complete, is it okay to ask opinions on the gun? Original or refinished? I have no skill at identifying the nuances of Parker stocks and thought this might be a good one from which to learn a few things.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=329785361

Big Friend Ten (BFT) · 03-09-2013, 06:44 PM

I think it has been restored. The blues in the case colors look too deep. Also the wood looks 100%

Double Lab · 03-09-2013, 06:51 PM

I agree with Mark.

Jawjadawg · 03-09-2013, 06:53 PM

One thing I just noticed for the first time are the weep holes on the bottom of the barrels. Am I correct that a Parker factory gun of that vintage would not have those weep holes when it left the factory? Did a single weep hole appear on the bottom of Ilion barrels?

Opening Day · 03-10-2013, 12:10 AM

It's a nice refinished gun, stock, barrels and receiver. Nice shooter

B. Dudley · 03-10-2013, 06:31 AM

I too was watching this gun. The whole thing has been restored. Not a bad job for a shooter. There are many things about I that are not correct. The white line pad. The colors on the frame are not correct, but those will fade in time. And the checkering is borderless, which is not correct. It is also fully pointed by the looks of it, also not correct.

BRDHNTR · 03-10-2013, 09:12 AM

Wasn't that a VHE? Didn't we see the ejectors and 2 screws on the underside/fore end latching?

Andy Kelley · 03-10-2013, 09:26 AM

Agree the blackness could also be due to a torch. Last time at Orvis Manchester their gunsmith Jordan Smith showed me a Parker frame that had been exposed to a torch in a clumsy attempt to give some color to a worn out fame. The repointing of the checkering looks as old as yesterday.A nice shooter but I don't think it was a loss not to have bid. Nicer Parker's have been offered on this site at a much better value and you are not dealing with an unknown. Andy

Bill Murphy · 03-10-2013, 09:28 AM

VHE, blued safety button. But the pad?? We know what it is, we just have a hard time equating the pad with the price.

BRDHNTR · 03-10-2013, 09:29 AM

Pad looks like a pachmayer