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Unread 10-06-2017, 07:14 AM   #11
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Josh, I've heard Fox barrels described that way but not Parker. By "3 weight" do you mean that the stamped unstruck weight of the barrels is 3 lb., X oz.?





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Josh, I've heard Fox barrels described that way but not Parker. By "3 weight" do you mean that the stamped unstruck weight of the barrels is 3 lb., X oz.?





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My bad. Still learning about the parkers. Barrels were marked 3lb. 6oz.
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That's okay Josh, there's an awful lot to learn. I'm still a student - I learn something new about Parkers almost every day.





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Thanks for that comment, Dean. It seems like almost everyday when I visit the PGCA website, I feel like that NPR Radio show, "Gee, I Didn't Know That"!!
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New to site and my first post. I am also the steward of a Parker 16 VH built in 1907. #1 frame with 28 inch barrels, but not certain about the chokes. I know its tight shooting since I have harvested a few continental pheasants and dove at a considerable distance with that left barrel. Once shot a crow loafing over a dove field with that left barrel and folded it. Stepped off to where I thought I shot it at about 60 yards, It was pretty high up so it carried almost to 80 yards. My guess is that right barrel is modified and left barrel is full. I think this was mostly how their field guns were choked, could be wrong.

Its a beautiful old gun and will need to take some pics. My only complaint and this is just the way it is I guess, is that I shoot lefty and the trigger setup is wrong. All I know is that I have to wear shooting gloves every time I shoot gun more than a few times or I get these little cuts from the left barrel trigger and trigger guard edge that both are about as sharp as a butter knife.

After about a half box of shells shooting mostly the right barrel the side of trigger finger is sore and you will have about 6 or 7 knicks in the skin like someone lightly whacked it with a serated butter knife unless you wear shooting gloves. I have had fleeting notions or thoughts to see if trigger layout could be switched, but I got two boys that are right eye dominant, so gun is good for them and they shoot it pretty well. Just have to accept sometimes that being a disenfranchised lefty shooter is just the way it is, especially for majority of older guns with double triggers.
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