Defining a Parker Long Range shotgun

[Kevin McCormack]

So far as I understood it, Parkers chambered for 3" shells at the factory are easily distinguished as such vs. essentially larger framed (e.g. 2 and 3-framed guns) 12 ga. guns whose chambers were lengthened after market to accept 3" shells; if you lay as straightedge along the FULL LENGTH of an original factory 3" chambered gun, there is no "swamp" or taper to the barrels, they are straight along the full length of the barrel. Guns bored after market show a decided taper or "dip" to the parallel line from breech to muzzle. And as the case with Fox HE grade guns, most were marked "3 " but not all of them.

[Cold Spring]

** Posted and later deleted until I have more time to check something interesting.

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

** Posted and later deleted until I have more time to check something interesting.

Were you in that part of Mexico about 20 years ago?

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by todd allen

Were you in that part of Mexico about 20 years ago?

No, only in Cancun and Tijuana.

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

No, only in Cancun and Tijuana.

I'll bet there are some stories linked with those two locations.

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

So far as I understood it, Parkers chambered for 3" shells at the factory are easily distinguished as such vs. essentially larger framed (e.g. 2 and 3-framed guns) 12 ga. guns whose chambers were lengthened after market to accept 3" shells; if you lay as straightedge along the FULL LENGTH of an original factory 3" chambered gun, there is no "swamp" or taper to the barrels, they are straight along the full length of the barrel. Guns bored after market show a decided taper or "dip" to the parallel line from breech to muzzle. And as the case with Fox HE grade guns, most were marked "3 " but not all of them.

I've recently become interested in these late Parker 1-1/2 frame/3-inch Long Range guns. I highlighted part of Kevin's post and question whether they really were straight along the full length of the barrel from breech to muzzle? The width across the 1-1/2 frame barrel breech is about 2.290" and width across the muzzles (32” barrel) is about 1.610". And if perfectly straight and without a transition “swamp” for at least a few inches forward of the breeches that might make for a decided heft and odd look to the back end of the barrels.

Or is it, that the barrels are straight tapered without a swamp from a point beginning some inches (10-12?) ahead of the breech and out to the muzzle?

Can someone with an original late 12 ga/3-inch gun on a 1-1/2 frame please check this for us?