Desireability

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

You're welcome Jack! Now we both know.

[MarketHunter]

I've always wondered if anybody else on the forum had a magnum 10 gauge other than Murphy and I. That 34 inch gun sounds like a dandy, you missed the boat there Bill. I like your #6 frame gun better than my #3 frame gun, yours would handle 2 1/4 ounce loads a lot better. I've got to stick with 2 ounce stuff, anything heavier literally drives you into the ground with recoil. I can stand a few shots but then you get to flinching it's so harsh. Hard on the body and definitely hard on the gun.

Destry

[Bill Murphy]

The big six frame was test fired with Chambermates in 12 gauge. The trick is to pull both triggers so you know the gun has actually discharged.

[PML]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

I've always wondered if anybody else on the forum had a magnum 10 gauge other than Murphy and I.

A number of years ago I was talking to a gentleman at the Vegas winter show about Parkers and he told me that he had a Parker magnum 10 gauge with a vent rib. I think he told me that it was a BHE. I was certainly suprised to hear of such an interesting gun. I never saw the gun but it was an interesting story.

Then last year there was another 3.5" gun at the Vegas show. I think it was a GH damascus gun that went back to Parker for new steel magnum barrels. I think Researcher looked this gun over as well and might have more specifics. They are out there....

Patrick

[Bill Murphy]

Patrick, the vent rib ten at Winter Vegas some years ago may have belonged to Mr. Parker. At least it was on a table near his tables. Maybe it was in the Parker auction but I don't remember it being there. Destry's GH Grade rebarrelled gun has been to Winter Vegas, but not last year. It was several years ago. Could there be two of them?

[PML]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Patrick, the vent rib ten at Winter Vegas some years ago may have belonged to Mr. Parker. At least it was on a table near his tables. Maybe it was in the Parker auction but I don't remember it being there. Destry's GH Grade rebarrelled gun has been to Winter Vegas, but not last year. It was several years ago. Could there be two of them?

Bill,
I think the BHE 10 ga. spent it life in southern Colorado and was unknown to the TPS authors.... or so the story went. I remember asking the owner if it was fun to shoot and the answer was "I don't know, I have never shot it". I thought this was strange as I would surely light off a gun like that if I owned it. Anyway, it would be a neat gun to see in person. The gun last year was "redone" and being shopped on the dealer side. Is Destry's gun re-cased? I think there is more than one. I am not sure who you mean by "Mr. Parker"?

Patrick

[Bill Murphy]

Jim Parker.

[MarketHunter]

My gun is refinished but several guys have said they thought it was Remington work so I'd imagine it got done when the gun was sent in for it's new tubes. I've owned mine for something like 10 years so I don't think it's the one that was at Vegas. I kept track for awhile of the geese I'd killed with it but stopped writing them down when it was around 200, that was a few years ago......


Destry

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Angel, regardless of the fact that your ten has 3" chambers, it is lumped in with the "short ten" category guns. Destry does own a real factory rebarrelled 3 1/2" ten that I had been looking at for some time before he wisely bit the bullet. My 3 1/2" ten is also a factory rebarrelled gun on a #6 frame but not marked with Remington chamber marks like Destry's. My gun was apparently rebarrelled in Vulcan Steel at Parker Brothers before the purchase by Remington. A friend has a CH Grade 3 1/2" ten that was also rebarrelled at Remington and marked. I looked at the ad for that gun in the Gun List, decided it had too many questions, turned it over to my friend. When it arrived, it turned out to be a 34" Bernard barrelled ten on a three frame with extra 34" Remington barrels, marked 3 1/2". Both sets of barrels are factory rib engraved with the owners' names, two generations of the same family. The gun also still has the original skeleton butt. If I were coming to Louisville, I would bring it. It is the only C Grade mag ten I have heard of and the only 34" mag ten, and one of two Bernard guns with names engraved on the ribs. It's some gun. You win some and you lose some.

There are obvious pitfalls to being an admitted "bottom feeder"

Sorry Bill - but I know you'll agree

[Hammer Gun]

Destry, I have a 3-1/2" PH 10ga that I duck hunt with 32" barrels. Do not know if it was rebored or came that way I shoot 3-1/2 Bismuth all the time. great gun! Gary