A C Grade without Barrels

[Dean Romig]

Nuts!! I never saw your gun Bill... Never thought to ask. It's my own fault. I hope to see it sometime in the future.

[Mills]

You missed one heck of a gun. The engraving was just meticulous . . . and the Bernard barrels and the story behind it . . . .

[Craig Larter]

Bill: Which gun is THE CH???? The straight grip?? Looks awesome---Please bring it to Hausmann's in the Spring. Craig

[Bill Murphy]

Thanks for the pictures, Craig. The top gun, the pistol grip, is DH #74,151 wearing the 28" Bernard barrels and forend. The straight grip gun is the CH # 86,988 wearing the 32" Bernard barrels and forend. The DH will stay in my collection even though I have found the CH back end. Two guns are better than one. Both are #2 frame guns with original skeleton butts. Boths sets of barrels will fit either gun.

[Autumn Daze]

Thanks for the pictures guy's. I missed seeing this great gun also! Drat...

[TARNATION !!!]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

The DH will stay in my collection even though I have found the CH back end. Two guns are better than one.

Very practical philosophy. It then must follow that 3 are better than 2 and 4 better than 3 and 5 better than 4 and so on and so on .......... Where does it end. I may need help.

Cheers,
Jack

[Bill Murphy]

This is a pair of Parkers I can afford. The DH back end was $750, the CH back end was $900, and the barrels were $400. So far, I'm in $2050 for the two guns and have the CH stock to fix or replace. About six feet of copper wire ought to do it.

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, thanks for posting the pictures of the pair of reunited guns. Let's see, since the last newsbreak, I have located the original barrels for the DH grade, courtesy of friend Gary Carmichael, who found them on a gunshow table in North Carolina and brought them home to Virginia. He caught my ad on the missing parts subforum and we reached an agreement. Unfortunately, John Davis long ago used the forearm for #74,151 on his BH project and I will have to find a DH forearm to finish the project. The saga of DH is almost as interesting as the CH. Parts for the DH came from Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and ultmately to me in Maryland. Another chapter of the story came recently when Kevin McCormack presented me with the restored original case for the great CH two barrel set. As always, it is a great job with no sign of the restoration visible. The entire leather binding around the lid of the case was broken away and rotted, causing Kevin to have to drill and restitch hundreds of stitches in the new leather. Unfortunately, 2012 wasn't the best year for me and I missed the Northeast and the Fall Southern. I will try to bring this finished pair of reunions to the Northeast Shoot in the spring. If Dave or Dean will take the pertinent pictures, we can throw something together for the next PP. The as yet to be replaced forend for the DH and the restocking of the CH will have to wait a bit. As you can see in the pictures posted a page or two back on this thread, the second forend for the CH fits just fine on the DH and looks like it belongs there. Thanks again to Jack Cronkhite who put this entire project together for me, one hour and forty nine minutes after my last ditch post on page one of this thread.

[Mills]

Bill, That was a great find and IS a great gun. We are still waiting on the Parker Pages story on your adventure with this gun

[charlie cleveland]

bill did you ever find the rest of the gun.. charlie