Early Parker

CapnMidnight

September 13, 2012 16:54

Can someone tell me the name of the box lock action on this old Parker shotgun?
Thank you.
W.D.
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  perry shooter

  September 13, 2012 17:09

  LIFTER then Top Lever then Hammerless

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  Hawk Carse

  September 13, 2012 17:24

  Well, in the first place, it is not a boxlock, it is a sidelock hammer gun.
  
  The action is what is known in the books as the Lifter Action.
  You lift up on the bar in front of the trigger guard to unbolt and open the gun. It was used when Parkers first went into production in 1869. The type was only gradually replaced by the regular top lever action with both being made from the 1870s until 1899.

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  CapnMidnight

  September 13, 2012 17:37

  Thank you Karl and James. I'll amend the discription.
  W.D.

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