Why the high price on .410 and 28 gauge Parker shotguns?

[Mills]

Supply and demand is the simple answer. I don’t own a Parker 410 but Parker 28s are my favorite Parker configuration next to 0 frame 16s. Fortunately there is more supply of 0 frame 16s

[6pt-Sika]

While not a Parker but the first 100 straight I ever shot in NSSA registered skeet was with a 28 gauge . And FWIW my highest average by gauge was always the 28 gauge just a skoosh above my year end 12 and 20 gauge averages .

[edgarspencer]

Everything goes in cycles. 40 years ago it was short barrels, today long barrels are in greater demand than almost any 26" gun. 40 years ago, very few people were actively shooting the 16. Today, they are as hot as they have ever been.
What goes around, comes around again. If you live long enough, you will see small bores demand slip some, then come back. 40 years ago, I inherited two Parker .410s. I don't regret selling them, and my dad rarely shot them. Demand for short barreled 12ga guns may not come round in my remaining years, but they will come back.
Virtually every collectable has a cyclical popularity.

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

While not a Parker but the first 100 straight I ever shot in NSSA registered skeet was with a 28 gauge . And FWIW my highest average by gauge was always the 28 gauge just a skoosh above my year end 12 and 20 gauge averages .

If I'm not mistaken the 28 gauge in NSSA competition consistently showed a higher average compared with the 12,20 or .410.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

If I'm not mistaken the 28 gauge in NSSA competition consistently showed a higher average compared with the 12,20 or .410.

Bear in mind it was thirty or more years ago but my 410 average was right at 97 but the other three stayed a bit above 98 . By no means all that great but I was happy with . And of the three over 98% the 28 was usually .1-.2% above the 12 and 20 . I think when it was all said and done I had as many if not more hundred straights with the 28 than I did the 20 . As to the 12 gauge most of the 100’s I scored in that gauge were shot with a 20 only 12 100 straights I shot with a 12 were done with an 1100 or 11/87 .

[John Davis]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Bear in mind it was thirty or more years ago but my 410 average was right at 97 but the other three stayed a bit above 98 . By no means all that great but I was happy with . And of the three over 98% the 28 was usually .1-.2% above the 12 and 20 . I think when it was all said and done I had as many if not more hundred straights with the 28 than I did the 20 . As to the 12 gauge most of the 100’s I scored in that gauge were shot with a 20 only 12 100 straights I shot with a 12 were done with an 1100 or 11/87 .

Well, there’s your problem. You weren’t shooting a 12 gauge Parker.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by John Davis

Well, there’s your problem. You weren’t shooting a 12 gauge Parker.

John you can bet if I’d have owned the J Cliff Green two gun four barrel set then I’d have shot it , but I seriously doubt I’d have done as well as I did with the Kolar tubed K-32 . It’s worth noting that K-32 had a K-80 Monte Carlo stock and I shot it with two other barrels at trap as well . It’s as close as I’ve ever come to the one gun concept . 28” skeet barrels with Kolar insert tubes , 32” barrels for trap doubles and a 34” unsingle barrel for 16 yards and handicap .

[Bill Murphy]

When I bought my .410 skeet, the owner told me that the gun had never seen a skeet field or a clay target, but it had killed a bucket load of quail. It was owned by Warren Woolf of Atoka, Virginia. It is pictured on the cover of the August 2004 Skeet Shooting Review. Yes, I do post pictures. My 20 skeet was owned by Virginia skeet shooter Bob Hess, the fellow who outed the famous 24 gauge Parker. My 12 and 28 skeets also came out of Virginia. I don't know how Craig Thompson let them slip by. Craig has probably shot on the same skeet fields as Bob Hess.