O grade 10ga hammer gun

[Rob Marshall]

I first want to say I've lurked around on this site for last couple years admiring these old guns and I'd been looking to buy one and I finally found one locally. It will not win any beauty pageants, but it all matching and the bores are pretty dang good. It appears to have its original wood front and back and original doghead butt plate that is pretty worn. The action is a little loose and it is missing it extractor(silly me didn't even notice it was missing till I got it home), but hopefully those problems can be fixed. The metal has that brown patina and no pitting. It is a 10ga with 30" twist barrels on a number 3 frame with a top lever. The serial# put it in the 1884 range. I probably gave a little to much for it, but I wanted it. I'll try to post a few pictures tonight or tomorrow.

[John E. Williams]

Welcome, Rob! I'm kinda new here myself, but wanted you to know that many of us appreciate the well-loved Parkers, too. Here's a link to the thread about my 10 gauge hammer gun, if you'd like to read it:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17552

As far as that missing extractor goes, I'd contact PGCA member Brian Dudley (username: B. Dudley) for starters. If he doesn't have one, he may be able to direct you to someone who does. Here's a link to his website:

http://bmdgunstocks.com/

I'll be waiting on those pics!

[Rob Marshall]

here is a few pic's

[Mike Franzen]

She looks pretty good to me. It appears from the photos your gun never had any checkering. There was an interesting thread started a couple months ago about parkers with no checkering. How much pitting is in the barrels?

[Rob Marshall]

Thanks for the reply Mike. To be honest I really need to give the bores a good cleaning, but I do not see any major pitting at all. This is my first Parker and this is the first one I've seen for sale here locally. The pawn shop I do most of my gun buying and trading with bought a collection, mostly Lc Smiths and this one Parker. Double barrels do not sale good in Jonesboro and he had been sitting on them for a while and every time I go in I looked at them, but at pawn shop prices I was not buying them. Then one day Mr. Cliff said he would sell me a all original very clean bore 12ga Lc Smith Quality 2 and this Parker for 1,650 and I passed then he said 1,450 and I said ok. I'm sure he still made his money too so we were both happy. Both guns need to be checked out and to be tightened up some hopefully in the near future.

[OH Osthaus]

one thing I notice is that in spite of the amount of honest wear on this gun

the screw slots are nice-

used but not abused - if you are right about the bores, it should clean up well

[Harry Collins]

Extractors? We don't need no stinking extractors!

For the looseness, take a piece of brass shim or a piece of a beer or soda can and cut it the width of the hinge pin and about a half inch long. wrap it around a pencil to put a curve on it and place it on the hinge pin. Put the barrels and forend on and see it this doesn't take the looseness out of it.

[Rob Marshall]

I would like to get it cleaned up and looked over by a good Parker smith and try to find the right ammo for it and shoot some ducks and geese with it this season. I wish I knew of a good gunsmith close to home. I always get nervous shipping a gun somewhere off.

[Mills]

I share your concern about shipping guns, although that is what I do most all the time now. There just are not any good gunsmiths within driving distance of here.

Buck Hamlin is in Pevely Missouri and that might be driving distance from you. I have not used him, but he has a great reputation.

[OH Osthaus]

seems that someone here once recommended a guy in Georgia who did good double guns work

depending on yours and his location- could be over the line or two states away

in any case - dropped of or shipped- getting a gun back from a good smith in time for this season would be a stretch, few of them are sitting around waiting on the next job to come in the door