thanks= missed there were two tens to chose from :bigbye:

Nothing has happened to my #3 frame 16, but I won't be selling it to make a two barrel ten gauge. However, I may try the barrels on one of my #3 frame tens, but for what reason? The little 16 is a great gun by itself. It is a lightly choked grouse gun with factory 28" barrels. I have no idea what the original owner had in mind.

bill would you like to go back and ask that fellow why he built a 3 frame 16 with such short barrels and all..if i could have ordered this 16 ga it would have had 36 inch barrels at the least...charlie

You got that right, Charlie. Years ago, the Shenendoah Gun Shop in Berryville, VA had a 40" GH 16 gauge. I think it was part of the General Billy Mitchell collection which they were selling at the time.

Craig, I sent you a PM.

Some 25 or more years ago Clark Brothers gunshop in Warrenton, VA had a 40-inch barreled 12 ga. Parker (forget the grade but it was at least a D, maybe a C). The gun was purported to have been made for Walter Chrysler. The stock had a most curious, perfectly round, circular depression in one side just about the size and shape of a shooting marble. It came to be referred to as the "melon ball" gun, since it looked like someone had scooped out the sphere of wood similar to the way one would a melon. The gun eventually sold after languishing for weeks in the shop; I have no idea who purchased it or where it wound up.

I'm pretty sure the WP Chrysler gun is a 40" 16 and it resides in Texas, near Dallas, in a private collection.

P.S. I, too, am curiouse.

I couldn't imagine lugging a three frame anything through the Grouse coverts at least not in the stuff I hunt them in:nono: I have a nice GHE 16 with 26 inch Damascus barrels on a #1frame and that gets heavy. I much prefer the O frames in 16 & 20 or a OO 28 for my Grouse pursuits.

I was fortunate enough (with the help of one of our very gentlemanly PGCA members) to buy a very nice #2 frame 34" 16 GA.
She is just right for me. Weight/ balance point/ etc.

I have never handled a #3 frame 16 or 20. All of the #3 frame 12's I have handled have been very well balanced and weighted guns for my interest and tastes.

I have handled one #2 frame 32" 20 and she is an awesome piece.
I would love one day to have a #2 frame 20 (32 or 34") and a #3 frame 34" 12.

I only went in that place two times . I was told Townsend Whelen was a part owner at some point . An old guy who's gone now at one point had an 1878 Sharps that Whelen had rebarreled to 22 Bluestreak if memory serves that was the 22 Savage HiPower necked down to .224 from .228 and the shoulder blown out . I tried to buy that rifle several times but never did .