the old 8 ga is a wonderful gun to shoot..lots of fun and not very expensive to shoot once you learn how to load your own shells...as BILL stated there were about 400 of them old parker 8 ga made...yes the common chamber lenth was 3 1/4 inch.both of the old parker 8 ga i have are 3 1/4 inch but they did make the 4 inch chambered in parker 8 ga also as BILL HAS ALREADY STATED...here are the chamber lenths i know of in the 8 ga around the world...3 1/4 3 1/2 which i have gotten from DESTRY a FA LOOMIS... a 3 3/4 a 4inch and a4 1/4... there were some made in shorter lengths than 3 1/4.... charlie

Great info on the 8 gauges. Just one more reason to love Parkers. Went out and shot my 10 gauge this morning. It is not fine gun but a japanese BPS 10, had to test it out after installing a new recoil pad. It just plain fun to shoot now. Just makes me wonder the kind of wallop the old 8 packs, with that 3 oz round ball Charlie is loading, it must be a blast.

Sorry for spelling your name wrong Mr. Cleveland.

If L.C. Smith only made twenty 8 gauge guns then they're all known to exist and most are owned by one guy. I've always thought that count was a bit off......


Destry

Can someone give me price ranges on 8 bore Parkers- hammerless?
Assuming reasonable hunted condition?
We dont see them very often.

George, What the hell are you doing sitting in your hotel room lurking on this board. We were so looking forward to a break, and you're supposed to be taking your wife to all those places around London I told you about. You are such a cheap ba$tard.

eldon that is a 2 ounce round ball load i loaded up for deer..but i have fired a few 3 ounce loads through the old 8 s in bb and no 2 lead shot..the recoil is not real bad its not near as bad as a mossberg poump 3 1-2 inch 12 ga...the old 8 s weigh enough to keep recoil down....i would like to shoot a 4 ga some day... charlie

http://www.pugsguns.com/findItem.action?id=1440

Here is a nice one.

hahaaha- too funny
We were in the lobby of our old hotel in Paris, Had to move back in because the French cant deal with 2-3 inches of snow and we cant get our train to London. We may miss London conpletely. No H&H, no Harrods.....