Revisions by Parker?

[Bruce Day]

Wayne, I am no Parker expert, but I think the rib end has come loose in the past, that's why the striations on the end rib post, and may be loose again, or could be better repaired.


As I said a couple months ago, this is a target gun, and a nice one.

[Richard LaMendola]

Wayne, What I find interesting is the front site bead. I have the same bead on a Lefever DS circa 1907. Yours is the only other one I've seen. Rich

[WHO]

Thanks for all of your input. My mind is made up; I am going to try to swing a deal on this gun.

[Bill Murphy]

I don't see the picture that one poster sees that would show the breech end of the rib and the top of the dolls head area of the receiver that would tell us whether the vent rib was on the gun when it left the factory the first time. The serialization book does not show it to be a vent rib or a single trigger gun. I will have to check, but it could have been a Miller trigger conversion reconverted to double triggers. The Miller conversion usually involves some ugly holes drilled in the trigger plate. However, the R that Dean mentions seems to be a Parker R. I don't know what a second generation Miller R looks like.

[Autumn Daze]

Wayne,Looking at your wonderful gun tells me it was originally built with a Parker one screw or first design single trigger. The extra screw hole in the floor plate was for the mounting screw for the mounting block. Also as Bruce states the muzzle end of the vent rib has been repaired and looks to need a little attention again but the keels are in place. A good barrel man can fix this up for you easily.