Thanks Rick. That was my thinking as well though I hoped possibly to be wrong. My other questions so far are unanswered though. As far as the top lever not staying to the right when opened does my thinking of just gunk inside seem to make sense? Also the same serial numbered buttplate is confusing me. It says in the Parker Serialization book that the plain steel buttplates were phased out in 1878 but my gun was made in 1884. I recently saw the plain steel buttplate on a later gun than mine as well. I did shoot the gun with some RST shells a couple of days ago just to test fire it. All worked properly as I thought it would and it did not blow up in my hands. I didn't really think it would or I would not have shot it of course.
I have tried posting pictures before using the instructions given on the Parker site but I always come up with a box saying to download some other program. I will take some photos of this gun in a couple of days and try again.
Thanks for your comments.
Dennis
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