id like to see a 8ga reproduction

[Bill Murphy]

I'm sure Churchill would make one for about $125,000 or $200,000, but it wouldn't be a nice as Destry's.

[Big D]

I had an opportunity to get a 4 hour tour thru Holland and Holland. Looked at a 4 bore which the works manager said "over $100,000 of engraving"

[Roundsworth]

http://www.westleyrichards.co.uk/GUNS-Shotgun

Check out the Westley Richards website. They will make an 8 bore double for you for L43,500 (that 'L' is supposed to be a 'pound' symbol!).

[Chuck Heald]

I guess I'd be entertained to see a 8ga Repro as well. I wouldn't be interested in buying one, but just for nose pickin, it'd be interesting.

While we're wishin', I wish someone would make a 0000 framed Repro .410 with 30" bbls. at 5 1/2 lbs.

[Milton Starr]

I know of the Westley Richards. They told me last year they had two in production.
I emailed purdey out if curiosity. They said 10bore is the bighest they do these days.oh thays right greener said they would make one for 300,000$ . Also i just heard of watson bros they make a beautiful sxs 4 bore. Not cluncky looking like the searcy 4 bore ive seen. I was told the new 4 bore rifles have to have bigger actions for the smokeless powder and higher velocity. So i suppose the old bp ones look better unless its a shotgun they still look proportioned. Fow now my quest ends with a 4ga english fowler with jeager conversion lock. The gunsmith insisted on a lock period correct .

I still love looking at british bespokes

[Sam Ogle]

Chuck,
Aaaah, yes. I too, would love to see that Reproduction.

A few years ago, I saw an ad for two (2) 8 Gauge shotguns (One Parker) and a 12 Ga Parker DHE Trap Gun:
I was interested in the trap gun, so called the fellow, drove to his house, and arrived there promptly at the time he said he would be home.
He answered the door, with cell phone in hand, talking to someone. He waived me in, and when off the phone, said "Well, I just sold the 8 Gauge Parker.......would you like to see it?" I said "sure."
Wish I could remember more about it, but it was a hammer Damascus, with long barrels as I recall. (Sorry, Destry, I just wasn't all that interested at the time, so it didn't really soak in.)
Ah, well.......heck of a nice fellow, and he had an LC Smith or two or three that would make one's mouth water if that was your collecting interest.
He also had an 8 gauge Tolley which he sold a bit later. It too, was very nice.
Sam Ogle, Lincoln, NE

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Chuck Heald

While we're wishin', I wish someone would make a 0000 framed Repro .410 with 30" bbls. at 5 1/2 lbs.

There are hushed rumors of two original graded Parker .410's with 30" barrels having been shipped to California in the late 30's

I know no details other than what I have stated. They went to brothers or cousins or best friends, as the rumor goes.

Two years ago I was told they might be coming to market soon... again, I know no details.

[Chuck Heald]

Dean,
They may as well be the crown jewels. No way I could afford the hang tag that went with those two guns.

A friend recalls a 30" .410 from his youth that his neighbor owned. The story goes that his neighbor's kid "borrowed" it from his dad to hunt with my friend. In the process of hunting, snow was shot out of the barrel and damaged the end. The father cut the barrels in the barn.

The Parker serialization book shows a small number of 30" .410 guns. My recollection was that it was more than a few, but not much.

[Milton Starr]

To bad parker never made a 4ga to

[MarketHunter]

I guess what I was really trying to say is that if somebody made a Parker reproduction 8 gauge that it would cost as much or more than an original.

DLH