My 10 ga # 3 frame, at around 10 or 11 pounds, kicks more than the 8.

Kick is determined by the weight/shot ratio. My Dad's repro 28 kicks more than my NH 10. My 8 is plenty heavy to absorb a lot of shot charge.

Mills,

Beautiful guns ! That big 8 is very impressive. Congrats ! ! !

Kind regards,

Jeff

The only #5 frame eight I have seen was a hammer gun. It was living a few miles up the road from me when I visited it. The condition was not enough to make it interesting. Somebody found it interesting, because it sold quickly. My little 30" DH eight gauge weighs only ten pounds and is on the #6 frame. It is the only hammerless 30" eight in the surviving records, and probably the lightest hammerless eight Parker Brothers made.

It would be cool to have an 8 gauge 5 stand competition at one of our events.

Greg thanks for the info on your wonderfull 28, it would make a great Grouse gun. I'll look up the DGJ articals.

Mills be very carefull if you tread into the small bore water's they are habit forming. I'll have two 28's at Drakes if you would care to shoot a round with one.

Mills I have it on VERY good authority that there will be another Parker 8ga at Drakes, so load up some shells and we can have a big bore shoot.

Ok. Sounds good

this will be the time to shoot those gage mates at clay targets and use the big 8 sshells for bigger game..mill s i still cannot get over how nice your 8 is...charlie

Thanks Charlie.

On Dogs and Doubles, there is an auction alert for a beautiful WC Scott 8 bore hammer
gun with a set of 10 ga barrels also. Go look at it--WOW!

I think their auction estimate is a tad bit low.

Dean, it was a lifter, and as I remember, not much over 10 pounds. Quite a beat up gun that had come out of Rhode Island by way of the Gun List. Interesting point, the standing breach was milled for the shell heads. Serialed in the 11000 range.

Dean, I missed your question. Yes, the #5 frame was a smaller gun, maybe the one Bill Zachow mentioned. I don't believe I ever looked it up in the SB.

Here is a GH 28 that was really tempting from last year's Spring Southern

http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/...ps53d834f8.jpg

I wish I'd seen that gun!

You and me both!
Who was the dealer or was it an individual?

It was a dealer but I don't remember which one. I just took this photo while looking around. It was around $9,000 which seemed like a really good deal. I just did not have that kind of money (and don't now)

Just cruise the tents looking for a Zebra rug. Should'nt be too hard to locate.:rotf:

A Parker 28 gauge is a gaping hole in my collection, but it will have to wait a while to get filled

$9K is about half of what such a gun is worth, presuming there are no issues.

Zebra skins?

I can't imagine a dealer haveing a GH 28 for $9K without there being issues with it. Still a deal if the problem isn't to great....like cut barrels.

Mills you would get a lot more use from a 28 than the 8 :duck::)

Most guns there were priced well above what I thought were fair prices. This was one I thought was fairly priced. Just did not have the funds.

Rich, you are probably right, but a 28 doesn't make quite as big a bang.

Yeah, but Mills a 28 is just downright sexy. Julia would look just smashing with that smallbore in her hands. Are you there Julia?:cool:

Really neat collection. The GH 8 is very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

She shot her VH 16 this weekend

Ordered some hulls and wads from Precision Reloading. Have an email to Tom Armbrust for the remaining reloading tools