Says the guy who's too cheap to pay $40 a year for an annual PGCA membership.

Clark, as the old expression goes,"Horses For Courses". There are plenty of Bismuth choices for using your Parkers for ducks. You're only going to shoot up a few boxes a year. If using inexpensive ammo is your criteria, buy the Beretta.
I may be at the far end off the spectrum, but I haven't bought a box of shotshells in many years because I load everything with recipes designed for the guns I shoot. It isn't to save a few bucks, it's to be able to shoot all of my Parkers.

I am shooting my way through 30 flats of Armusa in my O/U's and it's great ammo. It's 2 3/4", 1oz #8 1250fps we paid $90 a flat delivered from our distributor who shoots bunker in Binghamton twice a year. I'm going to see if he can get these, they look great.

They'll be alright if he's looking for hunting loads. All they have right now are #5 and #6. They are out of #7 1/2.

More than you probably want to read Clark, but this might be helpful
https://www.shotgunworld.com/threads...-shoot.366087/

We know the loads that Parker recommended and now have good data as to the pressures those loads generated. It is prudent to use lower recoiling loads in our vintage doubles however.

As Drew stated, no need to beat the snot out of those 100 year old wooden stocks.

I have ordered from them and received the 12GA rounds. The 16GA will not be available until January according to the website. I ordered two cases of the 16GA shells. The 16's are only available in 7 1/2 shot size currently.

I have yet to fire any of the rounds I have received from them.

I use the 2.5” Gamebore Regal 28gram #5 and #6 in my 1913 Hooton and Jones and Parker VH for pheasants, Partridge and Grouse and they extract fine and don’t in my opinion have much felt recoil in the light weight gun. That being said I haven’t shot any out of any of my Damascus guns but know a guy with a GH that uses them every year for grouse when he goes moose hunting they definitely aren’t the most economical shells in Canada but the quality of the hulls are nice for reloading.

I never hesitate to shoot them in my “Damascus” guns as long as the loads don’t exceed the pressures these guns were made to shoot… and I always shoot shells that are length-appropriate to my measured chamber depths.





.

I noticed a vendor in our Parker Pages magazine and decided to give them a try. They make low pressure/low velocity shells. This ammo works well for me. I use number four shot in 12 gauge. I see they also have 16. Salt Creek Ammo
https://saltcreekammo.com/products/l...muth-20-rounds

I used Salt Creek with my Trojan 12 and they killed ducks just fine.

But my favorite is Boss 16 gauge 3 drams #5 through my 16 Trojan as well as Boss 2 3/4" 3/5 through the Trojan 12. The Boss aren't low pressure and aren't short chambered but I'm not too concerned.

My grandfather ran 2 3/4" Remington Express and Winchester Super X through them just fine.

The wood seems to handle it fine. If you are shooting ducks and pheasants it's not like you are pounding hundreds of rounds down range.

I did have the barrels checked out by Kirk Merrington before I proceeded.