10 Gauge Parker

[Kirk Allen]

Originally Posted by George Lander

Kirk: Your G Grade Parker SN xxx appears to be in reasonably good original condition with the exception of a couple buggered screws. I definitely would not have it restored. Complete restoration would cost around $2,000 on a $1,000 gun that would be worth $500 after restoration. With Parkers and Parker Collectors originality is everything. Invest in a letter, clean the gun with light oil and leave it as-is.

Just My Humble Opinion....George

George, do me a favor and pull the serial number out of your post. I guess those experienced figured it out but I rather not display that info like that.

Thanks

[Brush Buster]

Kirk ,Looks like a nice old G grade ,but looking by your last set of pics. the gun does not have ejectors but extractors ,that lift the shell up out of the chambers and must be plucked out by hand .

[Bruce Day]

Why don't you want the serial number known?


I've always been open about posting the serial numbers of my guns, many of them high grade and valuable guns. I don't figure any of them are stolen, nor do I think that the government has hired web site monitors to write down the serial numbers of old shotguns so that when guns are prohibited, the gun police will come in the middle of the night and demand all my guns by serial number.

Parker shotguns are listed in a Serialization Book or in the Order Books by serial number, so naturally when a person comes here and wants to know characteristics of a gun, some people try to help him by looking up the serial number in the books. All parts of a Parker are stamped with the serial number.

Mr. George Lander is a true southern gentleman and was trying to be helpful since you had come here to the Parker collector's website looking for information about a specific gun.

[Kirk Allen]

Thanks for all the input. I assumed they were ejectors but wasnt positive. I assume ejetors are spring loaded to toss the round out?

Being a 10 gauge grade 2 I was hoping it was worth more than some have suggsted. Might just hold on to it.

[Kirk Allen]

Originally Posted by Bruce Day

Why don't you want the serial number known?

Because there are lots of people that will CLAIM they had their gun stolen and provide a serial number that they found online then try to take claim to it. You end up having to prove its yours instead of the dirtbags having to prove its theirs. Inocent people made out to be criminals.

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Kirk Allen

Because there are lots of people that will CLAIM they had their gun stolen and provide a serial number that they found online then try to take claim to it. You end up having to prove its yours instead of the dirtbags having to prove its theirs. Inocent people made out to be criminals.

I think that's an old wives tale and it's just not true. Anyone who's going to make a claim like that is going to have to establish they owned the gun in the first place, i.e. a police report that was filed in the past listing that gun as being stolen. The police aren't going to get involved with any less evidence that a crime has been committed.

[Kirk Allen]

Originally Posted by Jay Gardner

I think that's an old wives tale and it's just not true. Anyone who's going to make a claim like that is going to have to establish they owned the gun in the first place, i.e. a police report that was filed in the past listing that gun as bing stolen. The police aren't going to get involved with any less evidence that a crime has been committed.

I wish that were the case but it is in fact the main reason people dont share the numbers on line. It has happen and if you want to count on the police to be good at their job then you have more faith in the system than I do.

Its easy to file a report that the gun is missing with the claim you dont know how long its been missing for. Its happen and will continue as long as we have crooks amungst us.

The other issue is duplication. Yes its pretty hard to duplicate a Parker but look at the AR industry and you see a lot of people doing builds on their own and some actualy do copy others serial numbers.

[Bruce Day]

If that is true, a person should keep their gun secret, never post pictures,and never have pictures of the gun published.

In many years of fooling about with old guns, I have never heard of what you suggest.

But I suppose its true that people can and do make unprovable and far fetched claims. There are crackpots out there.

[Bill Murphy]

To be the devil's advocate, I had a gun stolen, did not report it properly. Today, after many years, I found that it is in the hands of an innocent third party. I have no feeling whatever that I could begin to recover that gun under any known law or legal procedure.

[Bruce Day]

What! Are you implying that some documentary proof might be required? Bill, its much more fun to wildly speculate.