I now have the VH in hand. I honestly wasn’t sure if I had made a great purchase when I bid and won, or if I was buying what would be a wall hanger. Boy was I happy to pickup the Parker from my FFL today! I will post pics below. It is a 12 ga and the first thing I noticed as I shouldered her, it’s quite heavy. Disassembly revealed it’s built on a #2 frame. It has 30 in Vulcan Steel barrels which are uncut with a brass mid bead and ivory or plastic end bead. Serial numbers match on barrels, frame and end iron. From what I can see, everything works as it should. From the reference tables, it seems to have been made in 1910. I assume it has been restocked and sports a fairly nice piece of wood in excellent condition with sharp checkering and very nice modern shooting dimensions. The fore end wood is a gawdawful beavertail, certainly not original. The barrels will need to be polished and reblued as it appears someone put the gun in a case wet, likely long ago, and left it for a very long time. Chokes are C/IC, which I assume was a later modification, though I don’t know why anyone would make a skeet gun of a #2 frame gun 12 ga with 30 in barrels. Case colors have long since disappeared on the frame. It has gone silver with minor freckling. Both sides of the receiver are prominently engraved “D.J. Hasinger”. The only restoration I plan to do is reblue the barrels and replace the rotten rubber recoil pad. What would be the most “correct pad”? I will also replace the beavertail with a splinter fore end, when I can find one. I will also order the research letter to find out more. More to follow
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