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03-06-2012, 06:45 PM | #3 | ||||||
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October 1936, Tom. This is a manufacturing date. With suffixes, it would be a repair or parts replacement code. It's a nice gun to sell. Let me know. You are the man. Sorry, I misread the chart. The year is 1938.
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03-06-2012, 06:50 PM | #4 | ||||||
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If the E G are Remington codes that would be October (E) 1938 (G)
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03-06-2012, 07:10 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Thanks all. She tips the scales at 7 lbs 11 oz. I'm headed to Florida with the better half tomorrow for a week. When I get back I'll take a few pictures and post them.
Nice remaining Case Color and amazingly enough a fairly figured buttstock. I think this would be a awesome pheasant gun, but first thing is probably wild turkey's. I've got some RST 1 1/4 oz loads of 6's that I got last year. Like these later Parkers. Drop at Comb is 1 1/2" Drop at heel a delightful 2 3/8". I can shoot this gun I'm thinking. |
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03-06-2012, 08:57 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Tom, a modestly figured American Black Walnut stock on a Remington VH or VHE isn't "amazing" at all really. We have seen quite a number of such V's and in my opinion are the equal of, or better figured than, the Meriden era Grade 2 guns wood.
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03-07-2012, 08:08 AM | #7 | |||||||
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I'm sure your correct. My VH made in 1900 is as straight grain and as non-figured as they come. Agree this is early GH level wood on this one no doubt. |
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03-07-2012, 08:31 AM | #8 | ||||||
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More highly than expected wood quality commensurate with grade of gun is quite common on Remington Ilion-produced Parkers. The higher-grade wood brought from Meriden to Ilion wound up on a lot of Remington Parkers (e.g., V- and G- grade) that would not have normally been stocked with such highly-figured blanks. Rather than purchase and shape more plain-Jane blanks, Remington used what was at hand.
With only a few years to go until WW II sealed the fate of the Parker Gun, and with so few Remington Ilion Parkers produced, we pleasantly see lower grade guns with high grade wood fairly frequently. One of the very best is a VHE 12 gauge 1/2 frame skeet gun that made its way through the Washington DC area around 10 years ago. The wood on it would have made a D grade proud! |
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