lightest and heaviest parker barrels

[charlie cleveland]

i ve asked this question before but never really got a good answer..what are the lightest and the heaviest barrels did parker make on there guns..my lightest are 2 lbs 8 ounce on a 20 ga the heaviest are on a 8 ga at 8 lbs 6 ounce.. charlie

[Bill Zachow]

Charlie, my PH 8 clocks in at 9/1;
My GHE 20 is stamped 3/1. The 8 has 36" barrels and the 20, 28.

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Charlie: I have a 10 Ga. that the barrels weight is at 9.7 pounds and a 20 Ga. with 26 inch barrels that are 2.85 but these barrels have been sleeved so wouldn't count. Thomas

[Bill Murphy]

Marked weight only.

[Bill Murphy]

My big ten Vulcan Steel ten is marked 8-14. I know it isn't the heaviest Parker going, but it it one of them. For fluid steel, it's pretty heavy. As soon as I can get to the scale, I'll weigh the whole gun. As I recall, its 13-8 or close. It is some Parker shotgun, more impressive than the eights.

[Bill Murphy]

The ten I discussed in the previous post is # 121593 . I finally got it on the scale and it weighs 13 pounds, 10 ounces. A previous owner was a Doctor in Palestine, Texas, who was not the person who ordered the gun, but was probably the person who had the ten gauge barrels made at Parker Brothers. His name and home town is professionally engraved on the trigger guard, but the exact spelling of the name is not legible, yet. The ten gauge barrels were a second set, and the forend lug and forend are marked "2". The eight gauge Twist Steel barrels are missing. I sure would like to find them.

[charlie cleveland]

sounds like aheavy weight 10 ga fore sure makes my 11 lb 8ounce gun a wimp..bill i hope some day you find these barrels that are 8 ga..if there was ever a pair of barrels that need reuniting these 2 barrels do...i would like to have met the guy who ordered this gun ...thanks for shareing this great storey it would make a great storey for parker pages.. charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Charlie, I have a baggo information on the original Nebraska homesteader family that originally owned this Parker. Studying this family was an astounding history of homesteading and farming on pre 1900 Nebraska prairie. I can only imagine the killing this gun was involved in to sustain the family and their neighbors. Although the gun was ordered after 1900, the family history precedes the building of this gun by decades.

[greg conomos]

My 8 ga GH barrels are 9lbs 1 ounce stamped weight

[Bill Murphy]

Greg, do you know what your gun weighs?

[Howard Loewensteiner]

8 ga 9lbs 14 oz. 7 frame

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

The 10 Ga. I have is stamped 9.7 and total weight is 13.90

[greg conomos]

Greg, do you know what your gun weighs?


All I have is an old baby-weighing scale so I am not sure how accurate it is but it shows 13 3/4 lbs.

[John Havard]

Egads those are some heavy guns!

What about the lightest as mentioned by Charlie? His 2# 8oz 20-gauge barrels have me beat. My lightest are on a 5#9oz 16-gauge GH 26" damascus (matches PGCA letter to a "T") that are marked 2#12oz.

What are the lightest barrels that our collectors have?

[Josh Loewensteiner]

The 8ga Howard mentioned above is a beautiful beast. The gun is a 7 frame with 36" barrels and retains most of its original finish. Parker did make a few 40" 8ga guns and I would be curious about their weights to possibly add them to a Parker's Found.

[Mills Morrison]

There was a 40" bbl Parker 8 at the Spring Southern last year. It was quite a nice gun.

[Bill Murphy]

Now, Mills, what did you find wanting on that gun? Josh, is your extra heavy gun a 40" gun?

[Mills Morrison]

It didn't have a price tag on it and there wasn't enough money in my wallet at that time anyway

[charlie cleveland]

got to be some more light weight and heavy weight barrels out there..looks like 2.8 and 9.14 is the weight to beat...charlie

[wayne goerres]

I cant compete with any of these weights with a parker. I would have to drag out (dare I say it) my Belgium gun.

[James Brown]

I have 28 ga. bls. marked 2.9 and .410 bls. marked 2.10, both 26" ejector.
James