GH 8 Guage

[Michael Grasso]

I'm new to this sight and was motivated to join by my recent buy of an 8 ga. GH. I have been buying and selling SXS for some time and have never been able to buy an 8 at a price that I thought fair. But now I have one and am interested in knowing the perceived value. It is a brown gun 36" bbls with good bores. Capped pistol grip. Wood is nice with checkering that is worn but very visible. Slightly off face. Original butt plate. There are no"improvements" to the gun.

[Richard Flanders]

No one can help you too much without some good pictures. Can you post some? The more the better.

[Michael Grasso]

Will have some soon

[Bill Murphy]

Start with a serial number. It sounds like a very interesting gun.

[George Lander]

Michael: The last one that I sold that sounds similar to your gun, 32 inch barrels & also a GH SN 14171X. brought $9,000 a couple years ago. Hope that this helps.

Best Regards, George

[Michael Grasso]

Serial # 119860. 36" bbls.

[Harry Collins]

The "Book" has it as a 1903 Parker just as you have described it.

Harry

[Bill Murphy]

You should order a PGCA letter to see if your big gun has some interesting provenance.

[Bill Murphy]

Here is an old thread that ended with absolutely no information about the final disposition of this wonderful gun. Anyone know?

[Mills Morrison]

This happens a lot. Another one I would love to track down is the D Grade toplever 8 gauge on Shotgunworld a few years ago. The shotgunworld thread is the first link and the photobucket photos is second link. Anyone spot this one recently?

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=273635


http://s561.photobucket.com/user/martyd_bucket/library/Damascus%20Shotgun?sort=3&page=1

[charlie cleveland]

interesting old gun...i wish we could find all the old 8 ga s andsee how many are left..i figure most of them are astill out there..charlie

[Eldon Goddard]

I agree Charlie would it not be something to see 100 8 gauge parkers all together and out shooting.

[Mills Morrison]

What would be cool and doable is to have an 8 gauge 5 stand shootoff at one of our shooting events.

[Bill Murphy]

The Fox collectors usually have a "rendevous" of certain models at their participating shoots. We have assembled the largest group of single barrels outside of the factory. We have also gathered Super Foxes and will again at the Northeast Shoot. I guess we could do the same if we had a display area. The display area for "big" Foxes is at the long bird shoot at the Northeast.

[Bill Zachow]

Back in the early days of the PGCA, we had a "reunion" of 8 gauges at an annual meeting. If I remember correctly, close to 15 were on open display and a number were in glassed display cases. Some pretty impressive guns.

[Mills Morrison]

How about an 8 gauge shoot off at the Fall Southern? Let's get some LCs and Lefevers out too

[charlie cleveland]

now that would be something i would like to see and be part of...charlie

[Bill Zachow]

It will be pretty hard to get a group of Smith or Lefever 8 gauge guns together as production of 8s by those makers was extremely limited. I believe Smith made about 30 guns and Lefever, about the same or less. I have only seen one Lefever in hand, and no Smiths. They do exist, but very scarce.

[Mills Morrison]

I think getting teams together for each maker would be really tough, but getting several eights together would be less hard. I remember one of the LC Smith guys has shot an Elsie 8 at one of the Southerns.

[Bill Murphy]

Most of the Smiths are in the hands of one collector who attends most events. He probably has a few Lefevers too.

[Mills Morrison]

It would be fun and a great way to get these 8's out.