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Joe Wood

05-31-2010 03:45 PM

I shoot three Parker short 10's. My favorite all around is a hammer top lever dollar grade on a 2 frame and original 28" twist tubes and right at 8 lbs. A very "brown" gun overall but deadly on anything that flies. Favorite load is 1 1/4 oz. With its short shot column I think all the shot gets there at the same time and in pretty much the same spot. Hard to explain but these guns deliver their payload with class!

#55,314 EH #2 frame delivered 12/26/1888 still doing its job

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...1010011b-1.jpg

DH #3 frame 30" 10 bore

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u.../Ducks1a-1.jpg

The ultimate pheasant gun: Dollar grade #2 frame 10 bore, 28" tubes, hammer (2003)

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...anthuntJoe.jpg

Pete Lester

06-01-2010 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Harm (Post 19380)

Mine is a hammergun with 30" barrels on a #2 frame and 2 5/8" chambers with a wedge forearm serial #13979. Maybe the last one with a wedge forearm ? Because of the cost of new Remington hulls, I cut a hull to 2" to see if I could just trim the hulls everytime they went bad from reloading. Think I found a way to get many more reloads from a shell.

I cut some back to 2 5/8" but I don't think I could go much shorter and still use a star crimp as the wad fingers of the SP10 was would have been too high. I believe most of these old 10's have "square chambers" and I wondering if that would upset the pattern from a shell less than 2 7/8".

Bill Murphy

06-01-2010 10:59 AM

Pete is exactly right. You should know whether your gun has square cornered chambers before you decide what ammunition to use. Chambers with tapered forcing cones are less ammunition sensitive.

Pete Lester

06-01-2010 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Wood (Post 19387)

#55,314 EH #2 frame delivered 12/26/1888 still doing its job

Joe I hope you submit the pic of your EH for Parker of the Month, it's a great picture!

Austin W Hogan

06-01-2010 10:27 PM

Joe Wood's EH 10 ga

Joe's gun has been in PP a couple of times. It may be the first 2 grade hammerless.

Best, Austin

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