Jack - Have a great opener - we want pictures!

Austin - Good luck with your Windows 95 computer. Mine croaked a few years ago and I have to bring it to the computer guru to fix it so I can retrieve all of my older unpublished stories. :coffee:

Great work Austin and great detective work Robin.

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Thank you Robin and Dean. That is the first article that I prepared for Parker Pages. I still have that 207000 gun ; in fact it was the gun I shot (badly) at Vintagers. It is interesting because it is a 32 inch two frame that weighs 7 pounds 3 ounces. Perhaps the barrel striker had to file those two ounces away to meet the customer's request for a 7 1/4 pound gun. That serial is in missing books.

Best, Austin

Some info, guys--my 1909 PH 8 gauge has an marked weight of 9 pounds, 1 ounce (36" bbls.) My 1892 P, top action hammer 8 is marked 7 pounds, 6 ounces (34" bbls.) A previously owned DH 8 gauge was marked 8 pounds, 10 ounces on its 32 and 9/16" bbls. Additional info and supporting Austin's struck to unstruck analysis, the PH os 88.2%, the P top action, 84.7% and the DH 84.8%. My guns, in general, appear to run a little heavier (struck to unstruck) than those in Austin's analysis. My overall number is 90.4%, with the composite barrels running 91.4% and the modern steel ones, 88.0%. As a point, my sample size is only 18.

Corrections, fellas. I was reading off two different pieces of paper. The REAL struck to unstruck percentages on my 8s are as follows: PH 91.7%, Top Action P 88.1%, previously owned DH 87.0%. These are all composite bbls. The previously stated overall numbers for my guns are correct as given. Sorry about that. I claim old age.

thats a hefty barrel at 9 pounds 1 ounce and 36 inch....this is the heaviest weight barrel thats been posted so far...and the 2 pound 6 ounce is the lighest so far....thanks charlie

who has any thing heavier than 9 lbs.1 ounce barrels or lighter than 2 lbs and6 ounces for the lighest...both of these weights beats my heavy and light weight barrels.....charlie