Meaning of 100-30-30 yards

[hugh rather]

In a Research letter,the owner had returned the shotgun to Parker Brothers service requesting them to make the RH barrel"shoot better" and the LH barrel shoot 100-30-30 yards.Aside from the desire to shoot better we all would like ,what does shoot 100-30-30 yards mean?

[Brian Dudley]

My guess would be 100 pellets in a 30” circle at 30 yards.

[hugh rather]

Makes sense.The owner sent it twice.This was the first and several years later sent the gun back to tighten up the right barrel pattern.

[Frank Srebro]

I'd say it was 100% patterning (not pellet count) in the standard 30" circle but at 30 yards. With period shells and bare lead shot that would equate to about 80-85% in the 30” circle at 40 yards.

[todd allen]

Sounds like a pigeon shooter trying to get that couple of birds that always gets away.
"Make this gun shoot better" ;-)

[hugh rather]

Attempting to look up hx on the owner. This one is hard to find as he used initials for his given name in the 1890's .

[Drew Hause]

Hugh: have you tried the Sporting Life Archives?
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/search
Enter his name in "Advanced Search"
If he was a competitor, you should get a hit.