Eldon: He prolbably has a pair of 12ga "gauge mates" inserts fitted to the gun.

to answer you boys question on the 10 ga shooting the 12 ga in it...i use a chamber adapter called gauge matesit allows the 12 ga shell to fit the 10 ga... yes you can get the gauges mates in many differant configurations like the 4 ga to 8 ga and 10 ga...8 ga to 10 ga and 12 ga.. 10 ga to 12 ga to 20 ga... 12 ga to 16 ga 20 ga to 28 ga to 410 ga....the list goes all the way down to the 28 ga....and they make custom gauge to fit anything you want...my 10 ga patters very well with using the gauge mate in the 12 ga set... these gauge mates are not very costly the cheaper ones are about 37.50 each...thanks big ten for showing the presure of the shells...im sorry for my typing i have tried to do better but heh im what i am a bad typer.... no offence meant ... i m not telling everybody to go out there and fire magnum loads through there guns with any parker barrel but i know my old gun as withstood heavy loads for 30 years or better...no barel problem and no stock damage...in my opinion i think these old barrels are better than we give them credit...only barrels i ve blowed up were fluid steel barrels on a 28 ga... mr bell tryed to blow up these old barrels and he did some of them but he had to use way above the sammi pressures given above even these modern mag 12 ga loads...ok fellows im out on a limb so dont think the less of me..ha charlie

Charlie,

No offense taken. I figure that you are doing your best. I just don't want your typing to get worse! :rotf:

I think the same that composite barrels are stronger than conventional wisdom professes. My theory is that composite barrels are more elastic than are those made of fluid steel. That said, I do err on the side of caution with them.

Mark

I turkey hunt with a 20ga. Either my GHE Damascus or my Trojan. I have been using RST 4s & 5s. They work great up to 40 yards!

That makes two Larry's killing turkey's with a 20 gauge. The bird in my avatar fell to a load of #6 at about 30 yards.

Just curious, any idea on the pressure of that load? I know RST is pretty good at providing info. I'd see those as nice turkey loads or even nicer pheasant loads out west where the shots are long and the wind always blows.

I like the way Charlie writes. It is stream of conscious writing like in Ulysses. So I take no offense at all.

My grandmother used to write the way Charlie writes. She made many a cheery pie from the cheery trees growing in her back yard. I appreciate it and have no trouble with it now that I am used to it. I sometimes have trouble with people who are as old as I am (67) who don't know barrel from barrell, there from their, don't use past tense such as useD to know or I supposeD the pheasant was farther away. But having said all of that I know people probably read my writing and think to themselves, that Dennis doesn't know anything. NAHHHHHHHHHHHH. We are all different and that is what makes us special. As my wife would say, stop rambling.

Alex Papp at RST just answered the pressure question I gave him yesterday on their 12 gauge 1 1/4 oz pheasant loads .
It is 7500 PSI

Bill

Magnumitis is common affliction that is contagious and wide spread amongst shotgunners. Bigger, longer, heavier is supposed to be better (but in reality it's not). When most Parker's were new what kind of loads were they killing Turkey's with? Were the old timer's under gunned? I don't think so. A one and quarter once 12ga load was the magnum load back in the day. It was the heavy load in 10 gauge for many years. They killed a lot of stuff.

Look at the patterns those RST shells threw! Would the turkey be any more dead with a heavier load? When we choose to shoot classic shotguns we should also choose the loads they built for IMO. Parker's have wonderful regulation and patterns with the right chokes. Be careful not to catch Magnumitis, it is a painful condition for one's shoulder and prized double guns.