Mark,
Is your new gun the one that sold a few weeks ago on the doubblegunshop website?

John Rutledge, to get an idea of what a Parker DHE with 32" with "all the bling" including an extra set of barrels might bring, see Julia's Auctions current catalog lot no. 1212. Estimated auction value of $4,500 - $7,500. But that's just one. See other recent auctions for a better idea.

Chris no, I was more interested in the set of Parker barrles for sale with holes drilled in them. HAHA

That gun has a fitted set of repro barrels. 2 8ga's up in the other lot also.

I shot a #2 frame GHE live bird gun on flyers for approx. 1 year, as an experiment to see what it must have been like back in the day. Never won a shoot with it, but hit quite a few 2nd & 3rd place over-alls.
It evolved into a friendly Winchester vs. Parker rivalry between me, and Don Criswell.
Don made a funny little reference to our "competition" when he signed my M-21 book.
Anyway, IMO, a SxS on pigeons is most effective when used with a trap load in the first bbl, and ideally nothing more than a 3 ¼ dram 1 ¼ oz 2nd bbl load.
I don’t shoot pigeons very much now-a-days, but when I do, I shoot trap loads in both bbls of a Perazzi SC3, with a release trigger.
I’ll admit to preferring the O/U on box birds, but think the edge goes slightly to the SxS for hand thrown birds.

In our little flyer club, purses are kept to a minimum so those who wish to shoot a good gun instead of the best shooting gun can do it with minimum investment. I prefer it this way so that I can shoot my Parkers without worrying about winning. Oddly, a side by side shooter wins the HOA purse on a fairly regular basis.

I found a win super pigeon shell somewhere a while back and shot it in my Daly not too long ago. Never again. About took my shoulder off. The clay just disappeared... Pretty stout those....

They're the King of Modern Shotshells in my opinion.

I used to use the copper plated 7 1/2's on ducks early in the season back in the good old lead days.

Deadly

Even Bob Brister loved the Super Pigeon load. I have had the chance to rock through 5-6 cases in a day shooting pigeons in South America.

As for the O\U gun for pigeons seems to me the top flight shooters use SxS's from Purdy, Boss, Winchester and Parker. Billy Purdue, the Lenick brothers, Russo's were always switching.

Mt favorite load was the old "Federal Flyers". As for guns, Perazzi is the gold standard in pigeon guns.

Todd,

Those were good ones too, particularly the paper hull version. You can buy them again but they've changed the powder charge and by all account they just ain't quite the same.


Destry