Parker Terms and Nomenclature

[John Davis]

The 1942,(first edition I believe), reads the same.

[Dean Romig]

Aha!... "The Little Gun" was finished in the dusty little plant down in Meriden in November 1889."

That makes perfect sense Dave, and Foster, being a true Parker man and editor and publisher of two sporting magazines while writing NEGS, would very likely have known that fact. Thanks very much Dave - Good thinking, I'm going with that!





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[C.O.B.]

Perhaps a 12 taken down to a 16 hence "relined"?

[stumpstalker]

So, were the barrels of Parker guns of any gauge, including the 16, generally overbored as well as were the 12 and 10 during the brass shell era of production?

I ask this because in THE PARKER STORY (authors Gunther, Mullins, Parker, Price and Cote), page 517, the stock books are cited as noting the general discontinuance of over-boring in 12 and 10 gauge guns in the 1890s, but, nothing is said in that paragraph about other gauges.