VH Multi barrels ?

[Skip Dillin]

How common were multi barrel set in VH Grade produced in 1914 ? Seems like I see them in higher grade "D" and higher but not so much in the lower grade versions.

[Dean Romig]

Pretty uncommon. They're out there but we rarely see them or hear of them.





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[Mills Morrison]

I know of two VH 2 barrel sets off hand. Not unheard of but not common.

[Michael Bartlett]

FYI: I purchased a 12 ga Parker Trojan 30" Trojan steel barrels serial number 190438 with the Trojan doll's head extension and F & F Chokes. A second set of 26" Skeet-out an skeet-in Trojan steel barrels with matching serial number was included in the sale. However, there was only one forend which fits both sets of barrels. Further, when I choose to shoot skeet wtih my 2-frame, 3" chambered, PH, I borrow the the Trojan skeet barrels, which fit the PH perfectly, snap on the Trojan forend and I am good to go. Parker fitting finesse to the Max; no retrofitting.

[Dean Romig]

I'm certainly impressed by your great luck!Q How often does that ever happen!?!





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[Dave Noreen]

There are very likely a lot more VH-/VHE- two-barrel sets that had the second set of barrels added at a later date, than were ordered from the get go as two-barrel sets.

[CraigThompson]

I have a VH 12 two barrel set , were ordered by and shipped to a person in Charlottesville Virginia and about 100 years later I purchased from an older lady who also resides in Charlottesville . Gun has 32” and 28” barrels both with their own forend . I have it with my stock fixer friend making the drop more shootable . If I’m able to figure out a way that gun will eventually end up in the Philippines in my safe there as well as a VHE 20 26” .

[Randy G Roberts]

How about a VH12 gauge two barrel set where both barrels are 32-in vent ribs. Rumor has it that there is a factory correct gun in that configuration out there. I do not own it nor do I know of it's whereabouts. Wouldn't that be an oddity to say the least.

[Richard Flanders]

I have a VH12 2-bbl set, 26"/30", both F/F for whatever reason. Highest condition Parker I've ever owned aside from new Repros. Lots of case colors and bluing. Two forends, 1-1/2 frame. Short 13-3/4" LOP and a slim grip. Special order perhaps? 1927 vintage. I don't think it's been used much. The 3.5" DAH is likely responsible for that. It will fit me just fine, but I'm not sure I've ever taken it out and shot it. Sure wish the 26" bbls had more open chokes.

[CraigThompson]

I forgot I also have a Grade o i think it is 10 gauge top lever hammer gun on a 2 frame that left the factory with two sets of barrels one 26" damascus and the other are 30" twist . And it letter that way .

With the 26" barrels and my 1 1/8 ounce loads it makes a fair to middilin skeet gun . With that gun it's no problem shooting 90% or more with relative ease ,

[Bill Murphy]

My PHE trap has 30" vent rib Parker Steel barrels, beavertail forend, and 26" vent rib Vulcan steel barrels, factory installed later, with splinter forend. Crossover stock by William Powley, Mifflintown, PA, probably from the forties or fifties. The gun was owned by the great pigeon shooter, Eddie Plank, who managed the Chalfont Gun Club, in Chalfont, PA, a great pigeon club until the seventies or eighties. It was known as the Bucks County Shooting Association. Plank's father was the famous ballplayer of the same name. He hosted ballplayers for pheasant hunts at his Adams County, PA farm in the offseason. Oddly, I shot with Bill Powley when I was a teenager and shot at the Chalfont club with my dad about the same time, when I was about 15 years old. This club had the first full 360 degree rotation clay target pigeon ring I had ever seen, before or since. Park your car at your own risk. My old pigeon gun is not a VH, but an uncommon host of features in a lower grade Parker. Oh yes, it certainly has a Miller trigger in the front position, like most Pennsylvania pigeon guns of that era.

[Mills Morrison]

I have two GH two barrel sets. Both were sent back for the second set. Actually, my 8 gauge became a two barrel set too, but the 10 gauge barrels are MIA, unfortunately.

[charlie cleveland]

great storey bill......mills it would be something to bring then 10 ga barrels back to see those 8 ga barrels.....you ponder to think how such a thing could happen...charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Mills, one of my favorite big guns is a fluid steel #6 frame ten gauge that was originally an eight gauge.

[charlie cleveland]

that's a great storey...a 8 ga in its first life and a 10 ga in its 2nd life...charlie