Ball Grips

[Researcher]

Originally Posted by John Bastiani

My 410 VH has a ball grip. Early Remington gun when they were still in Meriden.

Remington didn't call it "ball grip" --

VH, VHE 1937 grip styles highlighted.jpg

[B. Dudley]

.410s seem to usually have uncapped pistol grips.

[Bill Murphy]

Yes, the rarest .410 Parkers are capped pistol grips. By the way, many of us refer to the "half pistol grip" as a relaxed curve to the pistol grip, not a round knob grip. Brownings with a round knob are referred to by collectors as a "round knob" grip, which is more correct than "ball grip" or "half pistol grip".

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

Only capped pistol grip, half-pistol grip and straight grip on hammerless Parker Bros. guns. The "ball grip" was a feature of some Parker Bros. hammer guns.

The majority of half-pistol grip Parker Bros. hammerless guns I've seen have been .410-bores.

Bill Murphy's resurrected thread regarding the Gold Hearts gun has a research letter on a wonderful DH noted to have been ordered with a "ball grip."

[Bill Murphy]

Garry, Gerald's mention of the Annie Oakley gun on page 40 of the serialization book is, like the Gold Hearts gun, a standard round knob gun ordered as a "ball grip". Neither of those guns are the bulbous "ball grip" of the early hammer gun style.