Letter ordered for 139284

[Bill Graham]

Hello All. I've order my research letter for my Parker project and I'm looking forward to its arrival. If it's OK to ask, would anyone have any info from the serialization book that they would share for 139284?

Thank you.

[OH Osthaus]

lists as a VH 12 with 30" barrels and a capped pistol grip stock

[Bill Graham]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

lists as a VH 12 with 30" barrels and a capped pistol grip stock

Thank you. I was wondering how much of the barrel was removed. They left me with 28 1/8" and no chokes, but it's still a Parker.

[Dean Romig]

Unless the chokes were honed out you should at least have about 'skeet' chokes remaining. Original Parker Bros. chokes were as much as 4 1/2 inches or more in length.





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[Bill Graham]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Unless the chokes were honed out you should at least have about 'skeet' chokes remaining. Original Parker Bros. chokes were as much as 4 1/2 inches or more in length.

Cyl/Cyl is what I've got as measurements with a cheap choke gauge. More evidence that I really need that barrel I'm searching for.

[Dean Romig]

You should use a proper dial indicator to measure the amount in thousandths of constriction from the actual bore diameter to the measurement at the muzzle.





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[Bill Graham]

I understand.

It's clearly cylinder on both sides, and this gun is so challenged that's close enough. It is what it is. The bigger concern are the bore pits, having the bore wall thickness measured well, and determing what the course of action is then. I understand some of the options, and the costs, so I'm working select a wise and acceptible solution. I hope that the solution doesn't have to be hanging it on a wall until I find a barrel, but that may be the case.

It's a shame it was so neglected and got to this state.

[Fishtail]

Don't let the lack of chokes bother you. The cylinder bore shotgun is the shotgun in its purest form.

[Bill Graham]

Not too bothered. 80% of the clays course my family joined is well within reach with cylinder bore. We have a 20ga Sterlingworth ejector for my wife that someone did the same to as well. It's 25 3/4".

I typically am able to reside in the fixed-upper market, so I get what I can afford and what I can afford usually has been altered or neglected somehow.

The pitting is the main concern.

[B. Dudley]

A drop in guage does NOT accurately indicate choke on most parkers. Especially ones made before 1920 or so.

As dean said. A proper bore gauge or at least something that you can measure the ID of the last 6" of the bore with needs to be used.

Choke is the amount of constriction in a bore, not the diameter of the muzzle.

Most parkers were over bored. I have seen original 12g guns in the .750" plus range. And guess what, they still had full chokes. That would mean a very inaccurate reading on a drop in gauge which assumes a bire diameter of .729".