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Keith: Parker used a screw/solder to attach the doll's head top rib extension.
This is interesting; a damascus rib and steel extension.
Anyway - the screw head could be hidden with engraving, but if not can usually be seen

Ah, so that's what that is. I sometimes see a circular area on the extension, that must be it.

Call me a nut, but when you blow up the picture, it looks like the screw penetrated the tube. Possibly not all the way, but it could have weakened the tube.

Lot's of Damascus sets have steel extensions.

Regards
Ken

I didn't know that Parker used a screw in that location. The fracture happening across that screw hole is mighty suspicious, but I'm sure it would take more than a standard factory load to cause a failure at that point. Double charge perhaps?

I have seen amateur repairs using screws into the ribs, and have a Lefever that has a long machine screw that ran through the forearm loop and into the top rib. I don't care to shoot it or sell it until I can remove the rib to see if the drill or tap cut into the barrels at a point uncomfortably close to the forcing cones.

Having a few sets of Parker barrels on hand at the moment, I can see no reason for that threaded hole.

EDIT: The low s/n hammergun barrel set I have on hand do not have an extension.

I discovered the screw after the doll's head extension of a damascus GH dropped at my feet on Station 7 out at Ben Avery
Fortunately, Dan Lammers was able to reaffix without a full rib relay.
Not sure when Parker started the doll's head.

Not without a change of underwear.

Just using a calibrated eyeball, it appears the WT on the newly blown Parker is at least .100 if not .120 at the end of the chamber. Be interesting to see what it really is. Food for thought.

Thanks for the pictures Doc Drew.

The barrel thickness at the chamber by the 'screw' appears to be thin and darker as opposed to the bright appearance of new damage. The primer of the shell looks flattened, but not suspicious of extreme high pressure. Glad everyone was okay.

Ah, Ben Avery (previously named 'Black Canyon') shooting range. I have spent thousands of hours there. When I last visited, I didn't recognize the place.

Had a look at most of the Parker barrel sets I have on hand. Can only see the 'circle' on one set. (Barrel Set #1 in my for sale listing) All of the rest are very effectively concealed by the rib matting. Learn something new every day.

I would think one should use specialty low pressure shells from RST in shotgun like this. I would never guess modern target loads would be good substitute to use in gun designed when black power shells were in common use.