Conventional wisdom is that Nathan R. Davis made America's only pin-fire just after the Civil War. By this I mean in commercial quantities, sold by dealers, and not just "one-off" muzzle-loader conversions. Has anybody ever seen one? Anybody collect? CDR Roy Gunther wrote something about these guns in an issue of The Gun Report years ago, if my recollection is correct.
There's a chapter in my new book, Parker Guns: Shooting Flying tangentially on this subject, comparing Davis's track record to Cha's Parker's. I wasn't able to locate a gun to photograph and picture in the book; even Dr. Bill didn't have one. But now I've found a 1868 ad that pictures two different versions, one with a Parker-like lifter-opener inside the trigger guard, and another with a lever-opener forward of the trigger guard. Anybody care about this? EDM
