New member from AZ

[Ed Norman]

David,
Welcome to this forum, I joined last year, the members are very helpful. I found a couple of nice side by side shotguns from members in the forum also.

[Bill Murphy]

A few more pictures would be helpful, especially a complete picture of the bottom of the breech area, showing all marks, and a picture of the wood and butt area. The 4-8 marking, indicating a pre struck barrel weight of 4 pounds, eight ounces, indicates a heavy gun, most likely safe for shooting.

[Rustybeast]

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I will get a better pic for you soon. I took those before I cleaned it and noticed more markings. I am unsure of the marking on the barrel lug. It has what looks like a J.S. And then a 02 where most others I’ve seen pictures of seem to have a single number there for frame size. I’ll
Post up a pic.

I ran a camera through the bore today and it looks decent for its age, minimal pitting. I also ran an inside micrometer through and discovered it’s a 10ga with an improved cylinder choke. Really excited about that.

I do have a question about the forend. I understand these were all hand fitted so I expect to do some fitting when I finally find one, but will a forend from any of the parkers be a match? Or do I need to find a similar year and gauge size?