New Acquisition

6pt-Sika · 12-13-2021, 04:05 PM

Got a gun in today I bought from an auction in Long Island NY . Gun was advertised as a DH 10 gauge with 34” barrels . So me being the 10 gauge aficionado I seem to have become I looked at it closer . The wrist looked awful fat in the pictures so I’m thinking #6 frame 10 . When I got home I looked it up in the serialization book and was surprised to see it shown as an 8 gauge . So the following day I called the auction house talked with the auctioneer himself and asked a bunch of questions . On face , tight , rang true , 6 on the bottom of the barrel lug . So after I got off the phone I ordered a letter from the Chuckster . Letter arrived and all matched up with NO mention of 10 gauge replacement barrels . So for the last seven days I’ve been sweating this one getting here and turning out to be as listed a 10 gauge . And as fate would have it my original thoughts that it just might turn out to actually be an 8 came true . Eighteen months ago I had no 8 gauge now there are four in my somewhat modest accumulation .

Mills · 12-13-2021, 04:11 PM

You did well on that one! I saw it too and figured it must be an 8

6pt-Sika · 12-13-2021, 04:14 PM

It shows up as such in the serialization book . But in the back of the Parker Story it’s not included in the list of 8 gauge serial numbers

6pt-Sika · 12-13-2021, 04:16 PM

I asked on here a few years back “how lively in the hands” were 8 gauge guns . And none are what I’d call lively but the PH Florida gun and this DH feel a lot more bird friendly than the two hammer 8’s I now have .

6pt-Sika · 12-13-2021, 04:20 PM

This gun letters with a Silvers pad . And there was a pad once upon a time but most of the pad is now in parts unknown .

Mills · 12-13-2021, 04:24 PM

Seems relatively early for a pad, but that is cool too

6pt-Sika · 12-13-2021, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

Seems relatively early for a pad, but that is cool too

It's a 1902 gun , but it letters as having originally left with a Silvers pad . I put a Pachmayer slip on to try but it's more than a skoosh long for me now . I wanna take it to John Allgoods shoot at Prospect Hall this coming saturday and plunk a couple roosters . But most likely not until the pad situation is taken care of .

charlie cleveland · 12-13-2021, 04:59 PM

we will never get to many 8 s in our closets....or 10s......glad you got this one....charlie

Craig Larter · 12-13-2021, 05:19 PM

Nice work!!! If that gun could talk! And a round grip! I wouldn't call four 8's a modest collection!
Hopefully we can get more 8ga events at the SxS shoots.

B. Dudley · 12-13-2021, 05:23 PM

New rubber can easily be affixed to that original base.
It looks like a good honest gun.