Two Blackpowder Parker Double Barrels

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

DLH - Re: "Parker never made a muzzleloader." As that famous sage Maxwell Smart said many times - I didn't know that. Or should I say, the thought never entered my mind in the course of diddling with Parker guns for 30 years. One is never too old to learn. Thanks.

[edgarspencer]

The earliest version of Meriden Arms T Latch Could be fired as a breech loader using a Maynard type cartridge and external percussion cap, or, could be muzzle loaded and fired as any muzzle loader. I know later versions of the T latch had a conventional firing pin in place of the percussion nipple, and at some point the lock plates were marked Charles Parker, but I don't know if that post dates the percussion nipple. I had one of these, and as a teenager, traded it off for a garden variety S&W tip-up. I'm pretty sure the shotgun belonged to a family member prior to my father getting it, as most of our family was from Meriden.