Rib Matting Terminations

[Bruce Day]

The ribs were matted by a matting machine, and as I understand its operation, a person had to disengage the matt cutting tool at the right time by visual determination. After the lunch beer, maybe his timing slipped.

A few records have been found where a completed gun was sent back to Parker and Parker shortened the barrels. My sense is that is very exceptional.

[Bill Murphy]

I gave Bruce a "thanks" for his post, but I have seen more than a couple of Parker orders where they shortened barrels. In addition, customers thought that Parker Brothers could restore chokes in shortened barrels. In my experience with "fat" bores, I think Parker Brothers did try to accommodate customers by overboring barrels and restoring chokes on short barrels. I, or maybe Mark, can come up with an example. I agree that an album picturing rib terminations, but I think all such pictures should be accompanied by bore and choke dimensions and PGCA letter implying that the termination is factory work. Without such documentation, the termination would be just another rib, original or maybe not.