my most rememberable project gun started out as a 12 ga gh parker in fair cosmetic condition...wood had some cracks an gouges, with poorly applied varnish, with checkering a faint memory. however, wood was salvageable...twist type steel barrels were heavily pitted and dented. and were not salvageable and certainly unsafe to shoot with any smokeless load...
so, enter gunsmith ed lander...who just happened to have a pair of 12 ga fluid steel barrel blanks, left over from the lc smith liquidation sale...when marlin decided to end their post war production efforts...
old ed refurbished and refinished this deralict old parker, including sleeving the chambers with the aforementioned lc smith tubes. he reused the original ribs...as i recall, i had about $2000 total in this gun, including old ed's basic sleeving job...this was around 2007, as i recall...
after serveral months of futile sale efforts, i finally sold the gun to a skeet shooter in florida...for around $1500, as i recall...lost money...lesson learned not to do that again...
now the good news...for several years thereafter, that skeet shooter would contact me to advise the latest tournement that he won, using that old parker-smith...have not heard from him in many years...he may no longer be with us...if anyone reading this has knowledge of the whereabouts of that gun, please let me know...i would love to have it back, as i am starting a collection of old ed redone guns...
Last edited by ed good; 08/11/23 01:58 PM.
