Parker Internal Hammer Sidelock Gun

[Bruce Day]

No way to know Brad, but a "few" have been reported. Whatever that means.

This gun was purchased at the Las Vegas arms show.

I see it as an interesting exercise in gunsmithing craftsmanship and a "what if" look if Parker had commercially produced sidelock hammerless guns.

[C grade]

Bruce
Is that 262X?
David

[Parker Bachelder (Brad's Profile)]

Bruce I am a little surprised that Parker did not offer this design during the transition period, Hammer Sidelock to sidelock to box lock. I guess that Lefever filled that niche. H&R never got up to production speed to compete with Parker.
One more area of study if they had.

Brad

[B. Dudley]

The safety button on that Parker is from a Lefever.

[C grade]

I have located another of these conversions with a PGCA letter from Ron Kerby indicating the conversion was done by Parker. The ser # of this gun is 2625. The current owner has read the letter to me and I will try and obtain a copy.The gun is for sale and one of our members, a good friend, is interested. More to follow. The current owner believes Parker has Lefever do the work?
David

[Bruce Day]

comparision

[Dean Romig]

Interesting relocation of the plunger lock-screw I hadn't noticed before.

[edgarspencer]

I can appreciate the engineering that went into these conversions, but I wish they used low grade hammer guns, instead of spoiling beautiful grade 3 hammer guns. Maybe it's just me.

[Kensal Rise]

Depending on who made them, maybe they didn't "spoil" anything. If these are Parker efforts - or perhaps even test prototypes - they were possibly made up in the shop with bits on hand. Thus, no existing guns were sacrificed. Even if they were, it was a "cost of doing business" for Parker.

It will be interesting to see what the "letter" has to say...

[Dean Romig]

It would be interesting to see the date of the first of these conversions in comparison to the date of the first hammerless Parkers.