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[Brush Buster]

I don't know why the barrel lug is stamped with a #2 but I do notice the Unstruck barrel weight at 3LB. 8 Oz. and that seems to me to be pretty heavy for an O Framed 28 Gauge , that's getting into 16 Gauge 1 Frame range ! Most 20 Gauge guns are just below 3Lb. or just an ounce or so over !

[Bill Murphy]

First "2" I've seen on a rear lug in 65 years of messing with 28 gauge Parkers. I've never seen a 3-8 weight stamp on one either. I would buy that gun, looks like a nice one. I would get rid of those blued screws and be a happy camper. How about a picture of the rib legend.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Russ Jackson

I don't know why the barrel lug is stamped with a #2 but I do notice the Unstruck barrel weight at 3LB. 8 Oz. and that seems to me to be pretty heavy for an O Framed 28 Gauge , that's getting into 16 Gauge 1 Frame range ! Most 20 Gauge guns are just below 3Lb. or just an ounce or so over !

My 28" is marked 2lbs 14oz, and my 30" is marked 3lbs 4oz.
My experience is that the finished weight is between 2 and 5 ounces less, but I have seen at least one that I actually had to weigh because I thought the stamping was incorrect. They removed 10 ounces of solder and steel. Also, I believe the unstruck weight is pre final boring, so one could make the assumption a very open choked gun may have more than a few ounces of material removed.

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

My 28" is marked 2lbs 14oz, and my 30" is marked 3lbs 4oz.
My experience is that the finished weight is between 2 and 5 ounces less, but I have seen at least one that I actually had to weigh because I thought the stamping was incorrect. They removed 10 ounces of solder and steel. Also, I believe the unstruck weight is pre final boring, so one could make the assumption a very open choked gun may have more than a few ounces of material removed.

I compared several 10 and 12 gauge guns and found them surprisingly consistent as to weight removal. The outliers were the light weight guns but there was very little variance in barrel ID. They seemed to be very consistent as to final boring. I believe the difference was mostly striking the outside.

I actually considered the chokes at the time. I just checked again and a 12 gauge barrel having a 0.040 choke 3" long reamed out (assuming a straight taper) would only amount to around 0.5 oz or so a tube, depending on the tube alloy. It looks like going from a F/F to C/C would only drop a 12 gauge barrel set by 1 oz; quite a bit less on a 20.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer

I compared several 10 and 12 gauge guns and found them surprisingly consistent as to weight removal. The outliers were the light weight guns but there was very little variance in barrel ID. They seemed to be very consistent as to final boring. I believe the difference was mostly striking the outside.

Art, that should come as no surprise. Why would Parker alter their bores from the industry standard?
I would suspect the difference in weight between the pre-struck weights and the final weights should virtually always be from final striking. (Excluding some early over-bored hammer guns.)





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