A C Grade without Barrels

[Bill Murphy]

Thanks for the pictures, Craig. The top gun, the pistol grip, is DH #74,151 wearing the 28" Bernard barrels and forend. The straight grip gun is the CH # 86,988 wearing the 32" Bernard barrels and forend. The DH will stay in my collection even though I have found the CH back end. Two guns are better than one. Both are #2 frame guns with original skeleton butts. Boths sets of barrels will fit either gun.

[Autumn Daze]

Thanks for the pictures guy's. I missed seeing this great gun also! Drat...

[TARNATION !!!]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

The DH will stay in my collection even though I have found the CH back end. Two guns are better than one.

Very practical philosophy. It then must follow that 3 are better than 2 and 4 better than 3 and 5 better than 4 and so on and so on .......... Where does it end. I may need help.

Cheers,
Jack

[Bill Murphy]

This is a pair of Parkers I can afford. The DH back end was $750, the CH back end was $900, and the barrels were $400. So far, I'm in $2050 for the two guns and have the CH stock to fix or replace. About six feet of copper wire ought to do it.

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, thanks for posting the pictures of the pair of reunited guns. Let's see, since the last newsbreak, I have located the original barrels for the DH grade, courtesy of friend Gary Carmichael, who found them on a gunshow table in North Carolina and brought them home to Virginia. He caught my ad on the missing parts subforum and we reached an agreement. Unfortunately, John Davis long ago used the forearm for #74,151 on his BH project and I will have to find a DH forearm to finish the project. The saga of DH is almost as interesting as the CH. Parts for the DH came from Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and ultmately to me in Maryland. Another chapter of the story came recently when Kevin McCormack presented me with the restored original case for the great CH two barrel set. As always, it is a great job with no sign of the restoration visible. The entire leather binding around the lid of the case was broken away and rotted, causing Kevin to have to drill and restitch hundreds of stitches in the new leather. Unfortunately, 2012 wasn't the best year for me and I missed the Northeast and the Fall Southern. I will try to bring this finished pair of reunions to the Northeast Shoot in the spring. If Dave or Dean will take the pertinent pictures, we can throw something together for the next PP. The as yet to be replaced forend for the DH and the restocking of the CH will have to wait a bit. As you can see in the pictures posted a page or two back on this thread, the second forend for the CH fits just fine on the DH and looks like it belongs there. Thanks again to Jack Cronkhite who put this entire project together for me, one hour and forty nine minutes after my last ditch post on page one of this thread.

[TARNATION !!!]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Thanks again to Jack Cronkhite who put this entire project together for me, one hour and forty nine minutes after my last ditch post on page one of this thread.

Bill: Like many things in life, a bit of bullshit luck helps a lot. Google has changed our lives and the internet gets us in touch with way too many great guns. Can't have 'em all but wouldn't that be nice. I'm very pleased that the reunion of long separated parts came together for you. Cheers, Jack

[Researcher]

About six feet of copper wire ought to do it.

At the price of copper these days it might be cheaper to have Craig restock it!!

[Autumn Daze]

Bill, I would be happy assist in any way I can.