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This is the gun that followed me home Sunday from the gun show. A 10 ga Parker lifter that someone has removed the top rib and added a 44-40 barrel. Who ever did the work knew what they were doing. They dovetailed in a new rifle extractor to the shotgun extractor. The firing pin mechanism will drop down when the peep sight is raised so that the right hammer will hit it. When the peep is in the down position it holds the firing pin up and out of the way so that the shotgun can be fired. Bores all look pretty good but need a good cleaning. The right hammer face is badly pitted, so much so that I don't know if it would fire the rifle. I'll weld it up and reface it.











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Is it off face? That black line between the standing breech and the barrel breech faces looks mighty big in the pics. Hoping it's just bad lighting.

Tight even with the forearm off.

That's really neat. Any idea if it wore a straight-hand stock right out of the gate?


Serbus,

Raimey
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It looks original to me. If someone did restock it, it was a very long time ago.
Someone really messed the checkering up badly.

A very interesting solution to firing the third barrel.
Mike

est dot freaken stein or est dot franken Stan?

I photographed this Parker Bros. with a third hammer at the 2006 Vintage Cup --

Researcher do you think it was a smith add on or factory job? Sure look factory to me. Google said that Parker never made any drillings.

Raleigh NC?

I'm sure in my mind that these examples were done outside the Parker Bros. factory. I've seen similar attempts at making a drilling out of an Ithaca hammer double.

Yes Palunc. I live 1 hour and 45 minutes away now.

Not a lot of detail in the relevent photos, but it looks like the new breech block was silver soldered onto the top of the breech balls. The photo of the right side appears to show a relatively short length of joint.

I have tried some sketchy things with guns in my time, but even with the mild chambering, I would have some trepidition with trusting who knows who that did the work who knows when. I bet there were absolutely no calcs performed except "I think that'll work".

The breechblock is screwed on.

This video will show how the rifle barrel mechanism works.

That’s an awfully fun gun.Thanks for the entertainment.

Daryl I like odd things. You should see my wife.

You have nothing on me, Mike.