First 00 frame.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

It took me a while, Dean, but I found the pictures of the barrel set, 6999, which was one of the 20ga "small frame" guns. I no longer have them, but last I heard, the member who bought them from me was fitting them to Austin's 'small' gun. The picture I was looking for, and found showed my trammel calipers indicating .901" between centers, so roughly 1/32" smaller than the dimension which became the 00 frame centers. That gun must have been a joy to carry.
Interesting fact about 6999. It was originally a two barrel set, one being 20ga. SxS, the other being, If memory serves, .44WCF in the left and 20ga. in the right.

Edgar, you made reference here to "Austin's small gun" and I was wondering if Austin had more than one 20 gauge hammer gun?

The only one I'm aware of his ever owning one was from his story in Parker Pages Vol. 16, Issue 1, page 36, "A Tiny, Scarce and Interesting Parker Gun" serial number 17448 - is there another?





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