The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[scott porter]

Nice gun and gobbler.

[J.B. Books]

Almost half a year since the last post, any new 10 bore owners/shooters since then?

[Leighton Stallones]

JOnes Lever, 10 1/4 lbs,choked full and full,32 inch Damascus 3 bar bbls,
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[Joe Wood]

At the risk of being excommunicated from this august forum I'll confess to having received a "new" 10 bore yesterday. It's a William Moore of London made no later than '75. Jones underlever, laminated barrels, and forend wedge. Plain gun but in very high original. condition. Weighs 8/14.

Leighton, thats a serious 10 bore you have there.


William Moore, circa ? to 1875

[charlie cleveland]

nothing like a ten bore...fellows them are some nice tens even if they are forign made .... that long barrel ten would make a fineturkey getter and the short one a good crow gun...i can see the parker is already a turkey getter nice gun and a beautiful long beard... charlie ps just kiddin bout the forign made i also have a old hammer claybrough abd sons 10 ga...

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

Almost half a year since the last post, any new 10 bore owners/shooters since then?

I got two.

I have a 10 hammer underlifter #10227- basically unfired- was owned by a Parker EE - a caster. I have never fired it but bought some RSTs from Morris so soo I will.

the second is a damascus PH grade 55861- very early hammerless. i alway thought it was a 12 but never fired it. well 2 weeks ago I dropped a 12 ga shell in it and the chamber swallowed it. we put in a short ten and fired it in a vise. no problem.
Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.
I think it will be my new skeet gun.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

I got two.

I have a 10 hammer underlifter #10227- basically unfired- was owned by a Parker EE - a caster. I have never fired it but bought some RSTs from Morris so soo I will.

the second is a damascus PH grade 55861- very early hammerless. i alway thought it was a 12 but never fired it. well 2 weeks ago I dropped a 12 ga shell in it and the chamber swallowed it. we put in a short ten and fired it in a vise. no problem.
Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.
I think it will be my new skeet gun.

That is neat and explains at least one 2 frame (assuming it is a 2 frame) 10ga Grade 1 Twist. Can you scan and post the letter? Have you had the barrels walls measured, be interesting to know the thickness after the factory modification.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.

What is the minimum wall thickness on your 12-10 gauge convertible?

[Bruce Day]

Letters at:
1891 CH No. 2 frame, 26" 10ga cyl & cyl

[Don Kaas]

I like shooting these guns. They are easy to reload for and as I have a number of "short tens" I shoot them for waterfowl and the occasional spring gobbler- a 32" #3 frame D2 Parker toplever hammer (that also has a set of 32" Belgian made steel 3 1/2" barrels), a 30" #3 frame PT toplever hammer, a 36" D2 #3 frame GH and a rather nice Lindner Daly A&D action with 30" Damascus barrels and 32" 3" 12g and 32" 3 1/2" 10g fluid steel barrels added by ARMAF the same Liege firm that added the magnum barrels to the D2 Parker. (see below)