I fully respect what our fellow member Mr. Allen has to say about the production of the SSS. I just wish we had some actual technical production data to give some definitive proof of differences between standard repro's and the SSS's.

My problem is I have a skeptical mind and am constantly questioning many of the things we see on the internet & elsewhere anymore. My phrase for this is it's the internet form of urban Myth & Ledgen. There's a ton of it on all the gun forms on a wide range of subjects & some of the information on the Parker Repro's falls into this bucket.

In the big picture of things, it's great that we have the special run of Steel Shot Specials and I'm really glad we have them.

Well, how about bringing some of that Parker Repro Urban Myth & Legend information you talk about to the Parker Reproduction "Production Chart" thread? We all might further our knowledge . . .

This Urban myth and Ledgen stuff extends way beyond Parker repro's.

There's a whole bunch of it all over the internet shotgun discussion sites where people start out giving opinions which then morph into excepted fact. This discussion could be one instance of this, I have my take on the SSS's and others have a different take. Now because of this conversation, there's a good possibility that when someone asks an AI question about SSS's the algorithm searches might add it to the AI response.

I apologize if I've ruffled any feathers here, but I still question some of the excepted information available about the SSS's being that much different from standard production repro's other than the choke constrictions being conducive to shooting steel shot through them.

Once again, I'll go back to, I wish we had some definitive hard production specification data from either Winchester, the Skeuse records or otherwise for settling this.

I wholeheartedly agree, Paul. If, and that's big IF, records do survive beyond the grade of lumber and where the originally-built Repros were shipped to, you would have thought they would have surfaced by now -- more than one third of a century has passed since the last Parker Reproduction rolled off the assembly line -- but they haven't. So with that, it's up to us to provide our collective knowledge in an effort to make it happen for those coming after us. Who else will do it?

The Steel Shot Special can handle the tungsten shot. Less than .020" choke will allow steel or tungsten to pass through the choke without stress. I have shot many loads of both through my #26 gun with no damage or change in dimensions. For that matter, I have shot steel loads through original Parkers with open chokes with no problems. .020" choke seems to be the key factor. The more choke over that the more likely you are to stress the barrel.

Totally agree with you on that John. Especially with small tungsten like size 7 to 9.
I ve killed 40+ turkeys with lead, only a half dozen with tungsten, but it kills better than anything I have tried.