Hmm...that's an idea, Harold. It would make them lighter, too.:rotf:

5#13oz O frame VH16 26". Lighter than any of my 20s

Keith, that sounds like a wonderful Parker, curious, what is it choked?

6#9oz, DH, 28" Titanic, ordered C in right barrel--.003 measured, light MOD left, earliest #1 frame; same weight as my 20ga Parkers.

IC/MOD, a wonderful little upland gun, "caries like a 20, hits like a 12" someone said of 0 frame 16s. One of my favorite guns. Has put a bunch of quail on the plate.

I omitted the DH above is a 6"9oz, DH, 12ga,

I like my upland gun in the 6-7 lb range.... Lighter than 6, it just feels too light to me.

Maybe when I get old as Gary, I'll like that sub 6lb gun a lot better. :D

I once had a set of 26" 12-gauge, ejector, 1-frame Bernard barrels. Would love to have seen the entire gun.





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It's not how old you are, it's how many miles you have on you. At the end of a 13 mile day, especially when I've found absolutely nothing, I'm 100 years old and 6 lbs. is very heavy...as is my heart.

Pat, you'll get there. We'll talk when you do.:corn:

BTW, I think Dean has noted this also, but all of my lettered cylinder barrels measure out at .003-.004. For the Parker barrel regulators, it was all about how many pellets the barrel would pattern, not how the barrels measured out.

As far as how light they made them... I find myself in my ever handy spring issue of "Parkers Found".

Serial # 50131 16 gauge top action D grade on 0 frame with 28" barrels. 5 pounds even.

I would very much like to hold that gun.