Parker Rifled 12ga

[George Lander]

Originally Posted by George Lander

As an aside. I have a Fox Sterlingworth 12 gauge (L) & 45/70 (R) that appears to have been done at the factory.

Best Regards, George

Also as another aside I once owned a Colt Model 1886 that had both bores rifled in 45/70. I believe that this may have been done in the late 1800's as the standard military cartridge at the time was 45/70 Govt. and there was probably a lot of surplus ammunition available.

Best Regards, George

[Bill Murphy]

A Colt double rifle is less a mystery than the Parker double rifle. The Colt was a standard catalog item, although seldom ordered. Bruce, it would be very interesting to measure the bore diameters of the rifled barrels as well as the outside diameters. This would give us an idea of what your friend has here. Since the gun was in its present form at least fifty years ago, it is more than likely it came out of the Parker factory like that. We have another member who may be familiar with the early history of this gun, but I don't think he participates on this forum.

[Jean Swanson]

Some 30 to 40 years back , I purchased a set of rifle barrel inserts that were 12 to 16 inches long that were marked PARKER . A collector friend wanted them more than me , so I sold them to him . I also owned an L C Smith and Lefever that had rifled barrels---since sold. I would say that the American shotgun makers of earlier days would more than likely produced guns with rifled barrels---but rare . Combo guns of Europe , etc. are common place.

[Chris T.]

If I remember correctly, there was a post on the old website of a Parker with one rifled barrel. The rifling was not cut into the bore, it looked more like it was formed with a button and you could see it on the outside of the barrels.

[Jim Thynne]

While in the gun store we had 2 GH guns with hexagon barrels. The guns looked like orig parker barrels, as the ribs looked original. I have never seen a Parker advertisement for rifled barrels, but the sky is the limit. the guns didn't have standard rifling, but there was a twist to the bores.

[Bruce Day]

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[Jim Thynne]

There were several of these sold at Julias seven or eight years ago, I still have a 12 gauge damascus G grade that has a hammer forged damascus barrel with a 3?4 twist in the hexagon barrel.
I have never heard of any others, so I have kept mine.
A lummox at the storage dented the outside of the barrel so it is less than perfect, however these were don prior to the ribs being laid.

[Jim Thynne]

The rifling runs the full length of the bore, and could not have been done without removing the barrel. I got this gun from Oscar Gaddys collection some time ago. Strange indeed, and when I asked about it, Julias said they had sold 2 of them.

[Jim Thynne]

I have never fired the gun.

[Bruce Day]

We did not measure OD when we looked at it because we did not have calipers. iD was nominal for the gauge and was one of the indicators we used to conclude that the barrels were as done by Parker. Frame size 1 1/2

I do not recall the exact ID as it did not seem to be significant.