Working with Jent Mitchell I load 10g a 2 7/8 shells for my 1875 Parker hammer gun, low pressure for a gun with 2 5/8"chambers. Clays powder. This low pressure load performs well. I use it in several old 10 ga guns. For clays competition it is not practical for me to load shells. I use commercial loads selected to meet the requirements of the old guns, 10 ga guns ammo are out of my price range for competitive shooting. David

I use RST and have been very pleased.

www.rstshells.com

Maybe I should worry about it, or maybe not.

Wish I knew for sure what kind of shells my Father was using in my Grandfather's 1890 vintage heavy PH-Grade 12-gauge, at King Lake, Minnesota, in October 1932 --

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My gut feeling, from knowing what he used in my lifetime, is that they would have been Super-X, Nitro Express, etc.

Horrors! And the gun didn't blow up on him??? I hope none were smokeless powder that causes these weak Damascus barrels to unravel like a cheap sweater!

Dave;
Whatever he was shooting he used a lot of them. Looks like he could have used one more to finish off that drake Mallard (unless of course that was his decoy bird).:)

a mighty good shoot your dad had there in 1932..what frame size was that heavy ph parker and have you weighed it.. i too bet all that gun shot that year was heavy duck loads

The devil made me do it:eek:

Grandpa's Parker Bros. PH-Grade is on a 3-frame, but the barrels swamp very fast and it only weighs 8 pounds 8 ounces.