Factory Cut and Re-bored Barrels
I finally decided to get a letter on one of my earliest Parker purchases, a GH Damascus barreled 12 in the 56XXX range. This gun is in extraordinary condition, but the serialization book specifications indicated that the barrels had been cut down from 30" to 28," so I never bothered with a letter until recently.
When I got the letter from Chuck (thanks, Chuck, for the fast turn around), I learned that the gun had been sent back to the factory to be cut to 28" and rebored. My measurements of the barrels suggest they are still in the "new" configuration, although the chokes are shorter than I typically find in a Parker.
Do we know what the reboring process was like? The original chokes were not mentioned in the records, but the new chokes were to be cylinder and modified. The cylinder barrel is about .002" by my measurement (consistent with other original Parker cylinder barrels of mine). The modified barrel seems pretty open now at about .008," but I've never patterned the gun.
Was there a standard method for re-boring/choking guns at the factory? Do we know anything about the typical length of factory re-bored chokes.
Thanks in advance for any information any of you might have.
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