5 total known Sterlingworth 20's 32,'s, two with ejectors.

I’d be up for a PRE 1940 Sterlingworth 28 gauge with 30 or 32 inch barrels :eek::whistle::bigbye: And yes I’m well aware they didn’t make them then .

Rich - You are surrounded by them - Mike Daryl, Me.......maybe more....but I am told
Mike's is the 5th.....???

I guess I'll be content with the 30 inch A grade 20:rotf:

Decided 2021 was the year to finally attempt to find a nice original 28 Ga. Skeet in Skeet Out Parker , so early in the year I sold a handful and seriously started to search dealers and web sites and lo and behold , one came up on Guns America ,I contacted the owner who said this gun had been in his family since 1940 ! We struck a deal and one more added to my small collection of Parker Guns !

A Wonderful Parker Russ! Can we see more of it? Straight grip or pistol grip?





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The gentleman I bought my 32" SW from at one time had three. Mike got one, I got one and he kept one and was shooting doves with it this year. So that makes 4 that I know of.

Thank You Dean , It is a Straight Stock ! I am very pleased with this gun and am looking quite forward to Woodcock and Grouse season this year !:) Here are a few more pics ! This guns serial# is in the 238 Thousand section of the serialization book where there is a list of what appear to be about a dozen or so Skeet configured guns , as a matter of fact Josh L has one advertised that I have been pondering buying just because of the serial number being so close to mine !

That's just a wonderful gun Russ. Congratulations. I bet she sub 6 lbs.

Thank You Daryl ,it weighs 5Llb. 12 Oz. On my old egg scale ! I have a foot release Clay thrower on my patio and the LOP is a hair long for me but I shoot it well when I am shooting these clays and standing flat footed and ready ,I am looking forward to seeing how I do on Grouse and Woodcock ! I'm sure the gun will do it's part the shooter is debateable at this point !

In the fall with thicker clothing it will probably be way too long for you. You can remedy this problem by shipping it to me…





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Boy am I glad to hear that Dean ,I was wondering what I would do with it !:rotf:

Well, the research letter on my VH 16 arrived. It checks out as mostly original, save the silvers pad. It was shipped to a Howard Perry in Greenville, SC, so a southern gun which is uncommon. 26" and 6 1/2 pounds

Mills nice buy. I bought my son a VH 16 ga 26 on a 1 frame. He took it to the Tug Hill today for grouse, 4 flushes but no shots, still too many leaves. They make a perfect upland gun not too heavy but not whippy. 7

Off the top of my head I have three that letter as originally sent to the south . My hammerless 8 to Florida , a VHE 12 26” to Georgia and a VH 12 28”n32” 2 barrel to Charlottesville VA about 25 miles from me .

I have a few sent to the South. My other VH 16 with 26 inch barrels was sent to Atlanta, so this makes kind of a pair. Will have to try grouse and woodcock hunting up around Greenville now

The BH arrived yesterday. A bit of a project, but should clean up nicely.

I really like the setter scene on the floorplate

Alright, enough with the tease, what are we looking at here Mills :)

A very early BH 12 gauge I won at auction. 56,xxx sn range

See if you can click and zoom in on the pics. Lots of gunk and rust

Good luck with it. Hopefully the bores are good, the rest is just character eh ..

Bores are good, thankfully. Over 30 everywhere I measured.

Came into possession of a DH 16 yesterday . Gun has 32” barrels with 40 points each . Guns on a 2 frame as well .

Now THAT’S one to write home about!

What a gun!

I love those turnips!





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Nice Parker!

If I can’t break targets with it , it may not be long in my accumulation .:whistle:

Craig now that's my kind of 16ga, congratulations. Just the way I like to find them.

What a gun... It makes me wonder.... A 16ga on a #2 frame, with that much barrel thickness sure has to carry some weight. Why was it ordered that way and what was the original owner doing with it ? Waterfowl I would guess.

The many iterations of the Parker shotgun.

I shot the DH 16 32” 2 frame today and yes I can break targets with it . But I can’t play around with it , it’s choked tight enough that the A Game is needed especially on close ones . Anyway it’s staying for a few years unless of course they need to plant me . :eek: Now if I could find a VH/VHE or DH/DHE 20 gauge 32” F&F on a 1 frame dare I say with 2 7/8” chambers . But an 0 frame would be fine as well . Oh yeah failed to mention the 16 32” letters with factory cut 2 7/8” chambers which I find very odd .

Craig I bet there were a half dozen guys that were praying you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the gun LOL.

I was one of ‘em.





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those 2 7/8 chambers were ordered for the 3 inch 16 ga shell shells made back when...charlie

I’ve got a list of three or four . But the guy at the top of the list asked before I’d committed to buy the gun .

You wanted it for collectibility not shootability correct ? Oh incidentally what are the “turnips” you made reference to ?

This is only the third 16 that’s been brought to my attention having chambers for a 3” shell . And I heard about all of them in the last three months . Two Parker’s and a Smith . I wasn’t aware such a shell was ever manufactured.

There are a number of 20s and 16s chambered for that shell. I have owned both a 20 and a 16 chambered that way. Foolishly both reside elsewhere now.

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The big paper shells shoot great in them!

Here you go Craig. Both are vintage 16-gauge roll crimps and unfired, standard 2-9/16" on left and 3" on right.

That long-legged beauty needs to have its business end trained on a turkey's head not lounging around in a gun safe.

The late EDM (Ed Muderlak for those who didn't know him) coined the term "flying turnips" for the engraved ducks on some Parkers that actually look a lot like turnips with wings. We see them on a few Meriden Fire Arms guns too.... likely the same engraver.





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I seem to remmember having heard the turnip thing a couple times before but I was thinking it was in the scroll pattern some such way . As to Turkey I made my peace with them a few years back. But I’m not adverse to popping one while deer hunting if the opportunity presents itself .

I know where there is one 32 inch 20 gauge ejector sterlingworth.Bobby