The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Will Gurton

JB,

I have the gun. I am in the process of acquiring a loader so that I can afford to shoot it. LOL

Will

Congrats, you are going to enjoying loading for it. I assume you have seen my links on the how to and load data? What a great gun, I should have put on a drool bib before looking :-) Fluid steel barrels to boot and ejectors. Puts my B grade Remmy 10 to shame

[Craig Larter]

I have had a ball loading and shooting the short tens. Not Parkers but here is picture of my Elsies, 10ga Ideal top, 10ga Quality 3 middle, 10ga Pigeon bottom. The Pigeon is one of 4 10ga Pigeons and the only one with 30" barrels and they are nitro steel.

[Grantham Forester]

Just saw a auction bid for a Parker 10- number 3 frame, serial number 58903- 30" Damascus barrels, double triggers, regular buttplate. What is strange, to me anyway, is the letter grade. I have learned that H stands for hammerless, and an E means automatic ejectors, as on my VHE 12. But this older Parker 10 is described as EH grade. How does that compare to the VH, PH, GH, DH etc. line-up? Would this be safe to shoot with the shorter RST low pressure loads?

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Grantham Forester

Just saw a auction bid for a Parker 10- number 3 frame, serial number 58903- 30" Damascus barrels, double triggers, regular buttplate. What is strange, to me anyway, is the letter grade. I have learned that H stands for hammerless, and an E means automatic ejectors, as on my VHE 12. But this older Parker 10 is described as EH grade. How does that compare to the VH, PH, GH, DH etc. line-up? Would this be safe to shoot with the shorter RST low pressure loads?

EH is a 10ga Grade 2 (GH)

NH is a 10ga Grade 1 (PH)

In the late 1800's and early 1900's those grades in 10ga were $5 more than same grade in any other gauge so Parker gave them a separate designation, EH and NH. Sometime in the early 1900's those designations were dropped. Generally safe to shoot but each gun must be evaluated on it's own merits, barrel wall thickness is the critical factor.

[Larry the Gun Guy]

Originally Posted by Craig Larter

I have had a ball loading and shooting the short tens. Not Parkers but here is picture of my Elsies, Ideal top, Quality 3 middle, Pigeon bottom. The Pigeon is one of 4 10ga Pigeons and the only one with 30" barrels and they are nitro steel.

Those are a double WOW!!

Very nice guns.