Parker reproduction woe

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by David C Porter

It looks like they got the joint too hot & burnt the flux causing a weak joint. More that likely the repoductions were all soft soldered. And the reason we haven't seen more failures is most are shot very little, if at all. I've had 9 repo's over the years & most only had a few boxes shot through them, & then into the safe they go & a few were never shot at all. Most that come up for sale look like they have never been shot. So, this is probably why we haven't seen many failures.

Hmmmm--I took a 20ga repro on an Argentina dove hunt and put over 10,000 rounds through it on that trip. The shooting was fast & furious getting the barrels as hot as they could possibly get from shooting which included opening & closing the action as fast as the bird boy could drop two new rounds in it and never had an issue whatsoever with the gun, let alone the lug coming loose.

I'm more of the thought that this failure is a standalone issue with this particular set of barrels and we shouldn't denigrate all repro's based on this one failure.