68088 Got my letter

[Dean Romig]

And a homespun method of opening tight chokes.

[Donald Weber]

Thank you for the info. I did not know that Tryon was a Parker distributor. Does that mean that a customer could request a gun from them with a specified barrel length? Did they (Tryon) have the ability to perform the modification? In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. I'm just curious. The next time I shoot trap with it, I'm going to experiment, by letting the birds go further away, testing the effectiveness of both chokes. So far, at normal distances, it appears that the mod/full, is consistent.

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by Donald Weber

Thank you for the info. I did not know that Tryon was a Parker distributor. Does that mean that a customer could request a gun from them with a specified barrel length? Did they (Tryon) have the ability to perform the modification? In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. I'm just curious. The next time I shoot trap with it, I'm going to experiment, by letting the birds go further away, testing the effectiveness of both chokes. So far, at normal distances, it appears that the mod/full, is consistent.

Tryon was one of the largest distributors. A customer could select any standard barrel length (e.g., 26, 28, 30, or 32 inches) from them either their voluminous catalog(s) or as a walk-in customer, of which there were thousands over the years. Any odd-out lengths (like 24, 27, 29, 31, etc.) were not normally stocked by firms like Tryon but they could order them for the custom by request directly from Parker Bros.

Firms like Tryon received large and substantial discounts (in nos. of guns ordered as well as percentage of dealer prices). Volume was the name of the game with these operations and they spent little time and housed few resources (like in-house gunsmiths) to perform routine operations like cutting barrels and opening chokes.