Hello, I'm a new member from central Pennsylvania... - Page 4

Big D · 09-15-2018, 01:16 PM

Thomas - Should you decide to get research letters on your guns, the head historian who writes those letters lives in Central PA. You may be neighbors

Thomas Meloy · 09-15-2018, 04:32 PM

The Dag is Emma. 85 lb. 2 year old German Sheppard. Well she may be 90 lbs. now. She's Big, Muscular & FAST. I never expected her to get quite as big as she has. I know she has startled a few of the neighbors from time to time. Barks at anything and everything that comes near the property. Patrols the perimeter of the property every few hours. Likes play frizbee and beat up on Franklin the fat little chocolate lab from down the street... Bull in a china closet probably describes her best.

B. Dudley · 09-23-2018, 07:41 PM

Thank you for sharing photos of your Parkers.

Each and every one of the guns have been heavily altered from their original conditions. All of the beavertail forends are non-original. The guns would have originally been splinter guns. One looks like it could have the original buttstock. The others are aftermarket replacements and are not Parker correct.
3 of the guns have had all their metalwork incorrectly blued and the other has had cyanide case coloring done which is one step closer, but still not correct.
The vent ribs on the couple guns are aftermarket and one of the barrel sets is sleeved, and not done all that cleanly.

Essentially the guns have more value as family heirlooms for you, but unfortunately carry very little value on the open market to anyone else.

Thomas Meloy · 12-19-2018, 10:52 PM

Got my parkers back from the gun smith. He gave all a clean bill of health. He Spoke with a Parker collector about the guns and thinks the guns that where re-barreled where done at the Parker factory.

Dean Romig · 12-20-2018, 08:43 AM

Rebarreled maybe but the ones that were sleeved were not done by Parker or Remington. Sleeving was an aftermarket proposition.

Regarding shootability.... your Dad shot them all and probably didn’t pay a lot of attention to the loads he was shooting and if he loaded his own, just loaded to the standard trap and skeet loads of the day. I’m sure they haven’t sustained any ‘damage’ from sitting unused all these years since your Dad stopped shooting them.

What a nice legacy he left you.

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