1st Year Production 10 gauge

[Richard Flanders]

I'm assuming he's thinking the patent date indicates the year it was made.

[Bill Murphy]

Send me the gun. There is a serial number on there somewhere. I will find it and send it back to you.

[Lonnie Hill]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Send me the gun. There is a serial number on there somewhere. I will find it and send it back to you.

///You are right! It is an early back-action lifter model with a serial number of 46....Lonnie

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

I'm assuming he's thinking the patent date indicates the year it was made.

And Parker Bros. produced guns with Laminated Steel barrels right into the mid-1890's and maybe a scant few even after that.





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[Lonnie Hill]

[QUOTE=Richard Flanders;230570]I'm assuming he's thinking the patent date indicates the year it was made.[/QUOTEN/////No, I was told that production didn't start until 1867 and the first 1000 didn't have a serial number.