Just got my first Parker -- help, please

[Harry Collins]

Vlad,

Try www.rstshells.com Their shells are pressure friendly to our old Parkers and hit hard. Sherman Bell did a series of articals in Double Gun Journal titled "Finding out for myself". He studied pressure curves of black powder shotgun shells and compared them to modern powders at similar velocities. The short and long of it is pressure curves are identical when using certain powders, primers, wads and hulls. RST makes shotgun shells that duplicate black powder pressures and velocities with smokeless powders.

Harry

[Vlad Vladykin]

Thanks, Harry, I'll cirtainly check them out.

Here are even larger pictures of the engravings.

Thanks.

Vlad

[Greg Miller CTGunLaw]

See attached another 1892 PH Fishtail, which must be very close in time to yours. A damascus DH and a damascus GH. All pictures used without permission from posts on this board. To the owners thereof, I defer as to further comments.

[Harry Collins]

This is what Pat was sugesting except I used brass sheeting from the hardware store. you can cut it with scissors.

[Pittypatdugan]

What great pictures of how to get rid of barrel shake and the gun will feel as tight as a new one. I have never seen any brass sheeting that was so thin , what is the intended use of that thin brass? I think it will work better than the thin stainless steel because it would bend to shape easier.

PDD

[Vlad Vladykin]

Thanks for the advise -- it worked great! Home Depot does not carry the brass that thin and small -- had to go to a small local store -- got it in their craft supplies section. I do also think it'll work better then stainless: it's not only easier to bend, but any extra wear in the joint would be to that brass spacer, not to the gun. Now the barrels are tight -- almost too tight, as the fishtail lever is pretty tight now also. Should get better, once broken in.

Thanks.

Vlad

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Gregory Miller

See attached another 1892 PH Fishtail, which must be very close in time to yours. A damascus DH and a damascus GH. All pictures used without permission from posts on this board. To the owners thereof, I defer as to further comments.

A DH? That's the best looking DH I have ever seen. Looks like a CH to me.