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Gosh, the sculpting on those older hammers guns is fine!
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04-18-2018, 07:59 AM
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Hey, the gun is all there. That is a big plus.
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04-18-2018, 08:03 AM
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The PGCA letter on that gun may be very fascinating. This is a gun I would not have refinished. What a great Parker.
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04-18-2018, 08:16 AM
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What a great old war horse of a Parker that one is!!
What I would have given for those hammers a couple of months ago! That date could also have marked a memorable hunt or a first for a specific gamebird or animal... deer maybe? Unfortunately you'll never know - guns can't talk. February 15, 1914 was a Sunday WW I began on 6/28/1914 .
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04-18-2018, 08:27 AM
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This gun was lurking on GB with no bids through several cycles.
I was thinking of you, Dean, and the hammers when i was considering purchase a couple times. The few photos of the gun on the listing were just not good enough for me to take a chance on it.
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04-18-2018, 11:56 AM
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I did talk to the seller and he sent me more pictures. I couldn't help myself and I bought it immediately. The story was that the gun had been in the same family since 1949 and had not be shot in all of that time.
I did get a research letter. It didn't mention a specific person, though the gun was shipped to Claybrough Golcher & Co. of San Francisco in 1890 who I believe was a gun dealer/maker. The gun has nice stock dimensions - 14 1/4 LOP and DAH 2 7/8. I will shoot both black powder and smokeless shells with it this weekend. Would you clean this gun up at all of leave it as is? I agree that it has a great patina from years of use and I don't want to take that away. There is some tarnish/build up on the lock plates and on top of the bolsters, should that be cleaned? Mechanically it is off face(I put in a metal shim which tightened it up for now) and the lever catch needs a new spring. Barrels are pitted but shootable. |
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04-18-2018, 07:44 PM
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Clean anything that can be cleaned, including the bores, fix the trip spring. Your shim will fix the looseness problem. After this, I would shoot it.
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