4 frame Quality E 10 gauge
 

Latest 10 gauge and some Parker 10 A brass shells:bigbye:

Few more photos . . .

That your new quail gun , Mills??
Seriously, nice gun.

Not quite a quail gun, but turkeys maybe. At over 11 pounds, it is the second heaviest Parker I own, next to the 8 gauge

Mills that is a big gun! It sure would do well with ducks coming into flooded timber Gary

Just think what that behemoth would do to that poor snipe engraved on the floorplate. Would sure hate to carry that sucker all day on the mudflats!

Mills how long are the barrels, how is it choked. Grade 2 correct?
We all have a hard time keeping pace with your purchases, how many so far in 2019. Congrats. Craig Larter

Mills, have you received the PGCA letter?

very nice gun mills...the 4 frame 10 ga has eluded me some how....i have a 2 frame and the rest are 3 frames...for some reason the bigger the gun the better i like it.....what do the barrels weigh....charlie

Very nice 👍🏻

Your kinda gun and really nice wood also. Good score on that one Mills.

Barrels are 32 inches. It is actually a 2018 purchase but just got around to pictures.

What a great find Mills! That is a heck of a nice 10 gauge! I like everything about it. I also like seeing hammer guns with brass shells close by :)

The letter says it was ordered by Carlos Gove who was a famous gunmaker in Denver, Colorado back in the old days. Kind of cool.

If you don’t mind saying , was the person you got it from in Colorado or ?

Pawn shop on the west coast. Oregon or Washington

Gove made wonderful guns, especially custom modified Springfield trapdoors that rival modern custom rifles.

I found a few pictures online.

Any information is appreciated

Go on doublegunshop.com, the "single barrel and custom rifle" subforum. Someone on there will know about Gove, I hope. I searched "Gove" on that subforum and got a bunch of hits. S.D. Hughes, (I believe), Michael Petrov and I created that great subforum with the permission and assistance of webmaster Dave Weber several years ago. The search netted some pictures.

Thanks Bill. Some interesting info there and photos. I saw the comment that most of the info on Gove is out there and has been repeated over and over. That is what I have found in my brief search since getting this gun.

I found some suggestion that he was a competitive shooter and wonder if this 10 gauge could have been used for competitions? It seems he liked heavy guns and this 10 gauge is indeed heavy