I bought my first Parker 10 last week right here on the for sale board…(-: Its due to arrive March 5th, Thursday-ish. Its a GH-10 2 7/8 30" F/F I have RST ammo 5# 7.5# already that I bought for a Ithaca super 10 and I have a NIB sizemaster press with short kit and some other needed goodies. I never warmed up to the NID-10, never shot the gun or used the loading stuff before selling the Ithaca. I had planed to take all this stuff to Hausemann,s in June and sell it. Then the bug hit me to just buy a Parker 10 and use the stuff myself so I started looking. I really wanted a graded hammer lifter or top lever hammer gun but when this GH came up I had to have it. Maybe they will let me shoot her at the bo-woop traps at Hausemann,s this june...wink,wink (-: SXS Ohio

One of the first 10 ga 2 7/8s I owned was a 10lb CG Bonehill , I ended up selling it to my cousin . Shes about 5'6 and 105lb and after she shot it she said it was the softest shooting shotgun she had ever shot . After that she had to have it haha .

I think a good 10 or 12 ga sxs with some weight to it ( I suppose a heavy 12 ga would be 8lbs?) and some RST loads is a good combination for a smaller stature person wanting to enjoy shotguns .

Most uncomfortable shotgun I ever owned was a Ithaca 37 featherlight 16 ga .

As a hopelessly addicted duck hunter I have gone way overboard on the short 10 but it is the best choice for ducks. I have plenty of friends who shoot ducks with smaller bore guns and they get the job done most of the time. But after many years of observation and personal experience the short 10 is still the best duck gun ever.
I own 4 Elsie 10's, and 8 Parker 10's. Long live the 10!!!

Craig I bet that 15lb 10 ga 2 7/8 barely kicks . I think the barrels weigh about the same as my 10 ga MLs .

I have yet to try the short 10 on waterfowl , I really want to get into geese hunting this year with it . The short 10 makes a mean long range squirrel gun however :whistle:

amen on the best squirl gun ever....to me the short ten is the best duck gun made....charlie

My hammer 10 ga has 32" barrels and 2 7/8" barrels. So is it a short 10?

Yes it is.

Daniel

The barrel length doesn’t matter

It’s the 2 7/8 chambers ( or the less common 2 5/8) that defines a short ten since the longer shells came along

...or to go back and re-take high school physics...

I really like mine. EH 10 is right at home with prairie birds like Sharptail grouse.

26” 10ga pheasant gun.

Wow is that a DH 10 ga? Beautiful looking Damascus.

I will soon, just purchased one. Its on the way to Arizona from Wisconsin. I reload my own for BPCR and am new to reloading Shotgun hulls.

I shoot two #6 frame d grades, one hammerless, one hammer. BP and smokeless.

If Bruce has it, you should know it is a Quality CH. May be a "Pheasant Gun" as Bruce says now, but probably started life as a Prairie Chicken gun!! I'd certainly be proud to shoot either with it.

Do you have any pictures of your 6 frame 10 gauges ? I always like seeing them so far I think ive saw perhaps 5 or 6 of them .

Currently I have 2 short 10 gauges my 6 frame NH and my grade 2 top action hammer gun. After carrying the 6 frame a 3 frame feels like a 16 gauge :rotf:.

My #6 frame NH Twist Steel is an impressive gun, but not much fun to carry. As I recall, this is the ten in my collection with factory lettered 3 1/2" chambers. I'm in the middle of starting to reload for the short ten, first time in about ten years. I have two loaders on the bench, a MEC and a PW 375, but can't get any good crimps on cut off hulls. I will load with an over shot wad, sealed with Elmer's wood glue. Testing will tell whether the top wad in the left barrel will move after firing the right barrel. I've loaded eights for years with a top wad and no crimp, so I expect the tens to exhibit about the same result.

it will work good bill I have loaded 8 ga 10 ga and even the 410 doing it...not the best looking shells but they still go bang....charlie

Well, Charlie, I won't be carrying any six frames in the field, so the crimpless shells should be no problem on the sporting clays course where I can keep an eye on the top wad.

Currently I have some RSTs 2 5/8s which come with a nice roll crimp and some 2 7/8 bismuth loads . The Bismuth are 1 1/4oz of 2s and the roll crimped ones are 1 1/4oz of lead 4s . I havnt gotten around to patterning any them as of yet . My 8 gauge loads are glued , I have a roll crimper but I have read mixed results with the BPI one . I lost out on a ebay bid for a vintage 8 gauge roll crimper but once it went over $400 I figured I could live with gluing the overshot card in :rotf: .

milt them crimps of yours are really nice...hope you shoot that bismouth load soon I m wondering how it will pattern...charlie