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04-05-2022, 02:19 PM | #53 | ||||||
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I had never noticed before that the top tang of your 2-frame(?) 12 is another half again as wide as your 0-frame 16. Can you measure them and let us know?
And how close are the in serial number? .
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04-05-2022, 04:57 PM | #54 | ||||||
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Are those steel barrels on your 16, Mills?
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04-05-2022, 05:41 PM | #55 | ||||||
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Yeah, what's with that ejector stop plate??? .
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04-05-2022, 06:24 PM | #56 | ||||||
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04-06-2022, 01:59 PM | #57 | ||||||
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Not sure what is going on. It came to me that way.
FWIW both guns handle a bit heavy for their frame sizes
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04-06-2022, 04:50 PM | #58 | ||||||
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Look at the negative space, its almost like it was designed that way!
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04-08-2022, 10:28 AM | #59 | ||||||
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Finally found my 10 ga hammer gun #3 frame. It will not open if the right hammer is cocked. The serial number is 55,2XX.
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07-14-2022, 04:24 PM | #60 | ||||||
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Just happened upon an article in a an early Double Gun Journal which made me remeber this thread so I wanted to mention it. Written by Charlie Price for the Volume Four Issue 4 edition entitled "The Parker Fish-Tail Top Lever". It discusses a lot of the itms brought up in thisthread, but also touches on some other points. Some of them are: the order book in mid-1884 had a not to "Make hooked top lever so gun will cock when open"; Many early top lever hammer guns before the fishtail had the lever offset to the left; and there is a picture of a 7 frame 8 gauge with a fishtail that will cock while open, but if the gun is cocked when closed, the gun will not open when cocked.
It's a pretty interesting article if interested in the subject and worth a look if you have the Issue available. |
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