Jeff: Wow those are some big barrels. It would be fun to get a bunch of these old big guns together at the same time. Shot mine today at Drakes, what a hoot! Thanks Craig

i get a kick out of the fact that the BARRELS out weigh my whole 32 inch 10's

i wonder what the heavist set of parker barrels was..we have a 10 ga at 10 lbs 4 ounce and a 8 ga at 10 lbs 9 ounce.....can any of you boys beat these weights i cannot...charlie

Be sure to clarify if you are using stamped weights or actual...

Saw it at the southern today.
Very very impressive
Does a great job impersonating an 8 ga

I agree. It looks like an 8 gauge. In fact it looked bigger than the 8 it was next to.

I posted a few pictures of the gun and the letter in Albums
http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=611

nice - thanks for the pictures

Craig's gun was at the Southern and it was impressive!

i just am amazed bythe weight of those 10 ga barrels...woulda like to have met the man that ordered this gun this way... charlie

Craig is a fortunate man. I had a place picked out for it in the safe.

I have a 36" 10 ga d grade and it is a goose and duck terminator. A lot of fun to shoot. I use pyrodex in full length brass shells. It's a great gun and a real crowd pleaser.

Alan: That means we know where two of the three made are. What is the weight and frame size of your gun. Can you post pictures?? Thanks Craig

Craig,
For some reason I can't get the pics to copy/ paste.
Anyway the hammerless D grade I bought from Cabelas about 10 years ago and sent it to Turnbull for restoration. It is a #6 frame 10, 36" barrels and weighs 14 lbs. it was built in 1901 and sent to a guy in South Dakota. His name is still on the oval plate.
The other one is a D grade hammer 10, #6 frame,34" barrels I bought about 8 years ago. It went to Turnbull also and was such a wreck it was almost unrestorable. It weighs 13.5 lbs and was built in 1901 also.
Both are in as new condition now and I feel good that they are back doing what they were built for: long range duck and goose shooting. I have a couple hundred full length brass cases I load with pyrodex and about 1 1/4 oz of shot( bismuth for hunting). I also shoot them at ZZ trap now and then. They are also a lot of fun for driven pheasants.
Regards, Alan

I hope you can figure some way to post pics of those two as I would certainly love to see them :whistle:

Alan- if you emailed the pictures to one of us - we could post them for you

Awebber395@gmail.com
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I posted a 20 ga. years ago with no problem.
Someone give me a refresher.

FWIW , I enter any pics I wanna put on a forum on photobucket.com and then post them on whatever forum .

Thanks!

Around 1994 I was in a small Chicago area gun store and they had two hammer guns hanging on the wall. Both were 'rough'. One was a small frame Parker and the other was a very large Parker. I'm sure it was a 6 frame in hindsight. Because these were 'display' items I didn't ask more about them but I wish now I had.

Alan

i had put some instructions on posting pics in post # 11 of this thread

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...obucket&page=2

you can create an album on the PGCA site with straight upload from your computer

Alan's pics

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...pictureid=7409

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...pictureid=7410

The hammer gun is very nice and I like it ,but I really really like the hammerless !

Very nice thanks for the pictures. Craig

Actually the hammerless is the better shooter for me.
I need to concoct a nice low pressure load for the full length brass shells because I'm a bit tired cleaning the BP.

Get you 100 new Remington hulls cut them down , use the SP-10 wad with 1 1/4 ounce of shot a 16 gauge 1/4" wad in the bottom of the shot cup and a over shot card just to make the crimp stay flat then decide how much Greendot , Unique or Universal Clays you need and you should be good to go .

I am still using SR7625 but I'm down to about 8 pounds which is pretty much 10 gauge only now !

OR ....................................... ,

If you don't wanna mess with it you could always send that hammerless gun to Virginia and I could keep it excercised for you :whistle:

Heck I'd eben be nice enough to take them both out for exercise every couple weeks :rotf:

All BS aside they are both very nice and I cannot imagine anyone that wouldn't like having them in their collection .

Now I wonder how many EH guns were made on the #6 frame with 34" or 36" barrels ?

Thanks for the smokeless load tips. I'll do it.
Thanks but both of them are exercised pretty much every week. They are going to take care of some ducks come opening day.
For anybody who is interested there is a bar/restaurant in Sun Valley called The Pioneer Saloon. On the wall of the bar is a GH 10, #6 frame with 36"barrels. I almost fell out of my shoes when I saw it. I know a guy that knows the Owner really well and he can't get it. The guy just won't sell it. It's too bad because it doesn't belong on the barroom wall.
If anyone thinks they know how to deal guns, that deal would be a challenge.

Is the GH 10 in this group ?

https://www.pioneersaloon.com/bullet...arket-guns.php

allen your guns are really nice i m glad you them for hunting for all parkers were meant to go to the field...both guns are choice but for some reason the hammer gun appeals to me with the dark wood and the long barrels...charlie

It's always a nice try to liberate a gun off a wall but I've never had much success.

One year I got an under lifter D grade 12 made in 1874 with sawed off barrels from a gun store in Salinas, CA. After Turnbull plucked me for some $ it turned out to be a great shooting gun.

Charlie,
Thanks.
The hammer gun is more traditionally Parker with black barrels and a dark red stock. The hammerless was finished by a friend of mine and came out a bit light colored. Also the barrels are kind of English plum color. Not a Parker color.
Alan

I have a #6 frame D grade with 36" barrels and a #6 frame D grade hammer gun with 34"
barrels. Both were pretty rough when I got them and I had Turnbull rehab. both of them.
I shoot RST smokeless in them and BP with 1.25 oz of 7.5 shot. They are both deadly on ducks, geese and ZZ trap.
Have fun with yours!