20ga O frame barrels

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Bill. The answer is 'maybe, if you're lucky'. I was lucky enough to buy a set of 1916 Titanic 20 ga. ejector barrels that fit my 16 ga. 0-frame 1893 Damascus GHE like they were made for the gun. I was very lucky. It is extremely rare that this would happen. Often a set of barrels can be fitted to another gun by an expert machinist/gunsmith - Russ Bickel did this for me with my DH by fitting a set of Damascus barrels to it. Sometimes it can't be done at all without great expense. Maybe there was a great deal more hand fitting of a Parker than a Fox . . . I don't know.

[Tim Kisieleski]

Bill that was the question. Thank you.

Dean I know they usually need to be fitted on the Foxes. I wasn't sure if it was possible, or if others had done it before on Parkers. Not a super cheep solution, but less than buying another gun in 20 for clays and restocking it to me. (unless John GIVES me that little clunker, of Scott's)
I have a zillion hulls and the reloader , as all I normally shoot is subgauge clays. Is it rare to find 30" 20ga tubes? and as long as I'm asking semi stupid questions, along the same lines, if I were to find a set of damascus barrels, could they be fitted, if frame appropriate( I really liked the look of Johns barrels on the clunker)
What would a guess at fitting cost be? a grand? more, less?