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12-02-2018, 10:46 PM | #13 | ||||||
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Hypothetical question--given the low serial number and old military surplus steel barrels, is the gun more likely to be a 14 ga. or a 12b or can that question not be answered? I think only about 150 14 gauges were made. I assume a 14 ga. would be more valuable than 12b?
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12-02-2018, 10:58 PM | #14 | ||||||
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Given the rarity of 14 bore Parkers, It’s more likely to be a 12B.
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12-03-2018, 10:29 AM | #15 | ||||||
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Without seeing the gun but knowing it's S/N, I'd guess it's the lowest grade back action lifter gun with a straight grip. Some of the old back action guns were chambered for the 12b brass cartridge which has the same dimensions as a 14ga. paper shell. I'll also venture a guess that the bore diameter is equivalent to an 11ga. gun. I have actually seen 12b/14 entered in the first stock book. I have one S/N 63 and I know of at least one other that a member has.
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12-03-2018, 10:35 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Is Richard Hoover still with us? He was the expert on these early odd gauges
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12-03-2018, 10:45 AM | #17 | ||||||
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Richard Hoover, Charlie Price and Austin Hogan did a lot of research on the various bore and chamber sizes of the very early Parkers.
I have files containing all the known (at the time they were all with us and active) 11-gauge serial numbers and there are no three digit serial numbers in those files. .
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P.S. I just found an all brass unfired REM-UMC Best 12 gauge shell that will not go into either chamber of the gun. Not sure what that means, if anything, though. Last edited by Jack Hamner; 12-03-2018 at 05:14 PM.. |
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12-03-2018, 05:29 PM | #20 | ||||||
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If that one is a 12A you need to try a 12 B and if a 12B won’t go in either chamber at all, then in all likelihood it’s a 14 gauge.
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