What makes a skeet gun a skeet gun?

[Dean Romig]

A very good point Scott. A lot of Parkers left the factory configured differently from their originally manufactured configuration.

[C.O.B.]

In Ed Muderlaks last book he shows a VHE 20 in high condition that he sold as a skeet gun. It's got all the features of a skeet gun and open chokes but it's not marked skeet in/out on the barrel flats. In PA I looked at a very nice VH 20 with all the features of a skeet gun including the markings on the barrel but it is a Del Grego refinish which made me skeptical and there were no ejectors. My VHE 16 skeet gun has chokes of .010 in each barrel, a DHE 12 skeet marked gun had .015 of choke. Parker would do what the customer wanted and if it has all the features of a skeet gun than to me it's a skeet gun. No one seems to question the viability of a trap gun because it's not F/F, skeet guns don't need to be .003 & .005 (the choke of a GHE 12 skeet I have) to be a skeet gun.

I saw the gun in question at the Southern and its a great gun at a fair price.

[Bill Murphy]

Larry Del Grego would upgrade a non ejector gun to skeet configuration with stamps and they are great guns. Of course, it would be obvious that they did not come from the factory that way. A real skeet without ejectors would be quite a rarity. Another rarity in original skeet guns is a skeet configured, choke marked skeet gun with a splinter forend like the one Ed owned. I foolishly passed on that gun at an Ohio Gun Collectors show years before he owned it. It was a great field used gun that probably never saw a skeet field.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Richard Anderson

skeet guns don't need to be .003 & .005 (the choke of a GHE 12 skeet I have) to be a skeet gun.

But to be a true factory "Skeet' gun don't they need to have the skeet in/out stampings, option 14, and the more open choke on the left???

There were many guns built to shoot trap but they are not "Double Traps". Same with guns built to shoot skeet, the difference to me is when a gun was built, how configured, stamped, when built and how Parker/Remington was marketing at the time.

[Bill Murphy]

Yup.

[J.B. Books]

BTW Bill thanks from bringing your 3 frame 16ga to PA last weekend. I enjoyed seeing and handling it. Very interesting gun and it handled well regardless of it's weight.

[Bill Murphy]

As we discussed, it would be "One Fine Skeet Gun".

[PML]

[QUOTE=Pete Lester;44435]But to be a true factory "Skeet' gun don't they need to have the skeet in/out stampings, option 14, and the more open choke on the left???


There are factory skeet guns that are marked option 5 in the serial # book even though they have a factory skeet beavertail. I don't think option 14 is a must on a skeet gun.

Patrick

[C.O.B.]

A skeet gun should have open chokes but they could be oredered any way the customer wanted. I have a VHE 20 skeet with a 13.5 LOP a slip on pad takes care of LOP.

I think the better term would be skeet configured. Checkered butt, SST, BTF, ejectors. Most skeet guns had 26 inch barrels but I have seen them with 28. I once had a GHE 20 w/28 inch tubes, I miss that one.

[Bill Murphy]

I have seen more than one 28" skeet gun. I have never seen one that I thought did not originate in Del Grego's shop.