bills rite maybe we can get a serial no and find the lenth of these barrels..im beginning to believe that most 8 ga were not choked as tight as the smaller bores just my opinion...ray marzerellia spoke of this in another thread.sorry bout the spelling ray...whats your imput on this bill...do you think the 8 ga were choked as tight as smaller bore guns...bet destrey can help us out here too...never thought much about this but ive read a lot about the english 8 bores and look at their gun sites and most of them are choked modiefied down to about imp cly..they use 3/4 choke or 1/4 choke on most barrel markings...this would be an interesting articule in parker pages.... charlie

a lot of the numbers are missing from the book, but if you browse through the few 153xxx 8 gauges listed in the book, most are D or 3 grade - one is a 2 grade - all the listed ones are 36 inch barrels.

I have a DH 8 ga with 32" barrels straight grip stock that some of the members have seen and it letters as such oh and it has a flat rib.

Be still my heart!!

Eric what frame size. That is a very neet gun.

My 36" PH is choked 41/000 left, 44/000 right. I do not know the chokes on my 34" hammered V equivalent, bit the barrel ends are very thick, so I'm assuming full chokes also.

It's on a 6 frame

the old lifter 8 i have with cut 26 1/4 inch barrels is listed with 32 inch barrels in the parker pages 8 ga section...wish i could pin down this 8 ga choke thing...bill thanks... hey they may have all been full choke.. this is the way i would have ordered my new 8 ga from parker .. long barrels and extra full choke for me...im gonna keep looking at this choke thing on the 8 ga s in all brands.... charlie

http://www.pugsguns.com/findItem.action?id=1138

Here's another 8 gauge that I don't recall seeing on the site. Nice one, eh?

thats a nice lifter for sure..dont you know most all these old 8 ga s could tell some tells... charlie