if they made a 20 gauge 3 1/2 inch magnum i would own one of them too...they did make a 20 ga 3 1/2 inch slug called a hastings slug.. for a while there was plenty of this ammo but for the last ten years all i have found is one round it was given to me by someone here on the forum...what happened to this fine round and the guns built to shoot this 3 1/2 inch shell.... charlie

Would the 20ga 3" 2 frames be considered "Magnum" Parkers.

Good point

No. The first serious use of the term "Magnum" in American shotgunnery was the introduction of the 10-gauge 3 1/2 inch Magnum shell and the Ithaca NID Magnum 10.

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Back in the day that most of the 2-frame Parker Bros. 3-inch 20-gauge guns were made the 3-inch 20-gauge shell carried the same 7/8 ounce of shot as the 2 1/2 inch shell, just a bit more powder and more/better wadding.

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While the Olin brothers were playing with heavily loaded 3-inch 20-gauge shells considerably earlier, the 3-inch Magnum 20-gauge wasn't introduced to the public until late 1954.

my dad ordered one of the big ten gauges in1962.. it was a spanish built gun double barrel...that thingreall killed ducks and turkeys at unreal distances but it kicked like a mule..my dad liked big shot like bb and no 2 when it hit a duck with the bb loads it looked like you had shot the duck with a 22 rifle...my dad finally sold the big double ten and bought the first ithaca mag ten in our area...he hunted with this gun tillarutheritis got him to where he could not handle the gun...he gave it to me i still hunt with it from time to time...but i am also at the point of not being able to handle it well...the big ten will always have a place in my house....charlie

I love the big guns and big loads, but mostly for the shock and awe value of having them go bang. For day to day duck hunting, I have found an easy to handle 12 gauge to do just about anything I need it to do. And that is outshoot the folks with steel shot and modern autos

My LC Smith Long Range is a great mix of a lightweight 12 built for strong shells. I would love to have a comparable Parker 12

i too have a lc smith long range its got lots of choke great guns...i have a 3 frame 12 ga parker that has 3 inch chambers chambers probably lengthened by some one its not marked by the factory... but it weighs9 1/2 lbs it handles well but has modified chokes both barrels....another great gun but not much talked about is the ihaca heavy duck gun they have 2 7/8 inch chambers but handle the 3 inch shell real well....charlie

Agreed, having owned 2 7/8" tens, I can do all I've ever wanted to do in water fowling with my HE Fox loaded with 1 1/4 oz. of bismuth 4s. That gun was paid the ultimate compliment last season in Arkansas. I was in a blind with several friends, all of whom were shooting autoloaders and steel. I shot a big mallard drake in the rear end as he was going straight away. He hit the water, way out there, dishrag dead. My host said I had the only gun in the blind that could have made that shot. That's the kind of thing that puts the icing on the cake with these old guns.

SRH

love the storey...charlie