VH with 24" barrels - cut?

[DGL]

BD, I would have assumed the barrels in the top photo were cut due to the engraving on the rib...

[Researcher]

The depth of the blank area at the muzzle end of the rib seems to vary a lot, and every now an then a gun shows up with squiggly lines all the way to the end and letters at that length?!? Makes me wonder if they were cut at the factory to fill an order?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dan Lowry

BD, I would have assumed the barrels in the top photo were cut due to the engraving on the rib...

In response to Mr Lowry's assumption - if you double click on the picture you can easily see that the matting ends just before the end of the rib, and it is especially evident on the left side of the rib (that's on the right side of the illustrated rib).

And, in regard to anyone making the proclamation that 'all' original length Parker barrels had the blank space at the end of the rib with a scribed termination line across the rib (the vast majority did) - I have a Parker with 24" barrels (this length is supported in a research letter) where there is no scribed line and the matting runs right off the end of the rib.... see below -




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