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I found on that needs hammer repair that is also a Parker Damascus twist barrel that I think I want the twist redone. It is all origional now but not in great condition.Has a small dent in the barrel. It is gong to be a shooter.

Brad Bachelder
1229 Michigan St.
Grand Rapids
Michigan 49503
616-459-3636

All Parkers are shooters- back in their "Golden Age" they were one of many fine guns used for big money live bird shoots- "Gong to be a shooter"?? Huum- if you mean long range shooter at steel or iron type targets by "Gong Shooting" with the proper slug load "Brenekke?" possibly so, but side-by-sides, whether Parkers or Purdey's are notorious for cross-firing the slugs- I enjoy that form of recreational shooting myself, but lean more towards scoped center fire accurized mid-caliber rifles myself- A .338 LUPA is my current weapon of choice-- I concur with the good USMC Captain's recommendation here 110%- Brad Bachedler is "The Man"--

I've heard very good things about Brad, but don't know about his Damascus finishing. Mark Beasland (www.mbabllc.com) does a super job with Damascus. He teaches Damascus refinishing at the doublegun classes at Trinidad.

here's another one.

http://members.toast.net/keithkearcher/

He has done work for me and some others on this forum. I know he can do you a fine job.

Jim

Brad Bachelder is the man !!!!!!

fox
where did you see the OP mention the bit about slugs/sabotts or ball in this thread?
I would think getting the "twist" redone means re finishing the twist bbls,,,,I don;t think the bbls are rifled? Do you?
franc

Just my "read" when he mentioned "Gong" shooting-- just like our bowling pin shoots, and frozen Butterball shoots at our local gun clubs, we have metal "Gong" shoots- makes a real loud ring when a AP round from a Garand or a 1903 hits it dead center- Shotgun pellets, even from a extra full choke at the ranges we are shooting from- no ring-ading-ding-ping-Bada Bing-Bada Boom--so I assumed this gentleman would want to use slugs- Brenekke or other high ended types- As most of use know, even expensive and regulated british express double rifles have to be "regulated" for even POI etc. with their loads- as cross firing can be a problem- more so with any side-by-side or even, I suppose, over and blunder shotgun- whether a Parker or a Parkhurst- right barrel will usually tend to put the slug projectile to the left of POI- lefthand barrel will tend to put the slug projective to the right of POI--and for any of our membership in the 50th State- the term POI does NOT mean wallpaper gooey paste flavored and dipped from a bowl with your fingers- it means POINT OF AIM--

Francis, for goodness sake, he meant GOING, not gong! And that caliber you mentioned is .338 Lapua, not Lupa. If I made the leap you did I would assume you were talking about shooting she-wolves.

SRH

Kearcher is good at a lot of things, but black and white Damascus refinishing has not been one of those things. His B&W tends to come out brown, perfect for Brit guns but not for most Parkers.

Shooting she wolves or maybe doing something else.

Sounds good- if they put a bounty on them- MI is debating the possibility of an open season (sans bounty) on wolves- greatest number of which seem to be in the Indian areas of both the Lower and Upper P's-- of course, the Indian tribes here can: shoot and hunt without limit, license or season, a well as fleece the White Man with their casinos- but to them, just as to Hitler, the wolf and eagle are sacred creatures. The PITA and Humane Society numbnutz are of course, opposed to controlled hunting of anything with wings, fur or 4 feet on the ground-- and as no one hunts wolves for the meat, as opposed to the deer and elk in MI which the wolves are free to feast on, as well as both farm and domestic animals at their will-- much like their midget cousins in the Lupus familiae- the coyotes- there is a season on 'yotes here, also trapping is allowed. But you are right, I miss-spelled the word Laupa- mea culpa- don't have one yet, nor, for that matter, a pre-64 M70 in .338 Winchester Mag-would like to try those mid-.30's calibers on some feral piggies however--Now that's a Green Light- in MI- you can kill them 24/7/365- no closed season, no daily limit. Cheers

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For black and white to finishing: Brad, MBABLLC and Dale Edmunds would all be fine choices.
What type of hammer work do you need done? Just curious.

Some of Brad Bachelder's Black & White finish on a Parker.

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Thanks for the good close photos that show my friend Brad's first class work-- I live about a 45 minute drive from his shop in NE sector of Grand Rapids--and it is always a treat to see his craftsmanship on display-- both on customer guns awaiting pick-up by their lucky owners, or on the fine guns for sale there- not just Parkers either- many English and European side-by guns as well, and a few custom rifles I would be tempted to rob a bank for--

That would be mea culpa no. 2.

Let's try this one more time.

Lapua is the correct spelling, not Lupa or Laupa.

SRH

The the part on that connects the hammer spring to what ever makes the hammer work had broken and is gone.The triggers seem to be real close together maybe one is bent. I measured the inside of the barrels which by the way seem very good and came out with about .775. I tried to measure the thickness 9 inches from the breech with the brownells thickness guage and due to time I couldn come up with a figure that seemed right.Could it have read .185 . I'll have to re try I was in a rush.
The only thing I don't like about it is it must have about a two inch drop at the comb being a short Irishman like about a one inch.

I talked to Brad Bachelder yesterday and he seems like a straight up guy. He also said he would move mine up an all your guns to the back burner and rush mine out.

Good luck - he doesn't care how much you spend there, all guns wait their turn. He also does excellent stock work - can bend the stock to what you want. He's worked on a number of my guns and at this time is doing a total restoration on a 1873 Remington hammer lifter. You'll be happy with what ever he does. Paul

Ok- when you spell Georgia (either one of our 50 and the theme for the best song Hoagy Carmichael ever wrote-IMO) or even the Russki's version correctly- instead of "Jawja" I'll start paying attention.

Touche', Francis. And I can assume that you were intentionally misspelling, as I was?

Hope the snowstorm they are predicting doesn't do you too bad.

SRH