Thanks Dean I thought they went the lenght of the barrel. So if one bought a factory coach gun it would probably have keels?

There is a detailed drawing of them in the FAQ section at http://parkerguns.org/pages/faq/BarrelKeels.htm

There's no Silas Marner activity here. I keep it in the freezer so it's nice and cold. Sometimes you just want a swig and don't want/need a glass and ice by the time you get that stuff together you could have had three pulls from an ice cold bottle.

Learning to speak Spanish now are you? Next thing you'll be shooting an AYA.

Yes Calvin, if Parker Bros. had ever made a coach gun (e.g., some of the 'faked up' Wells Fargo guns we've seen) it would have had keels.

No Rich, I took four years of Spanish in school but don't remember a whole lot of it.... and I never intend to use it as a second language.... (please shoot me first) ... and Aguirre y Aranzabal has made some pretty nice shotguns in the higher grades but I have no desire to own one - I'm stuck on Parkers.