Not so typical GHE?

[C.O.B.]

According to TPS the vent rib was first offered on an AH gun in 1923, there was a prototype in 1922. If this is indeed the case wouldn't the rib on the Pugs gun have been installed post production as it was made in 1895? The gun mentioned here falls into the correct time table for the vent rib but why the posts?

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

According to TPS the vent rib was first offered on an AH gun in 1923, there was a prototype in 1922. If this is indeed the case wouldn't the rib on the Pugs gun have been installed post production as it was made in 1895? The gun mentioned here falls into the correct time table for the vent rib but why the posts?

Factory-installed prototype vent rib guns were seen way before 1922. I believe there was an article in Double Gun Journal years ago about a very unusual vent rib gun down in the 171XXX range that also had a "rippled" pistol grip trigger guard (grooved to fit the fingers). My BHE pigeon gun SN 183562 had a factory vent rib with BTFE as well as a SFE, built in the 1917-18 timeframe.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

A very unusual vent rib gun down in the 171XXX range that also had a "rippled" pistol grip trigger guard (grooved to fit the fingers).

Yes, that is John Dunkle's great-grandfather's fantastic AAHE Double Trap gun that I mentioned earlier in this thread. And I believe it was the very first vent-rib gun produced by Parker Bros.






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