You just gotta love this type of thread busting post. :rolleyes:

Oh well, I learned something from the discussion and hope others did as well.

Greg I learned a few things myself:shock: Hope to see you at a shoot sometime:)

Greg, even though we don't agree on everything we discuss, your last post was quite profound. Thank you so much.

If you've never seen and/or would like to take a look at a Parker Reproduction BHE .410 on a 0000-frame, go here:

http://www.icollector.com/Parker-by-...6-b_i10488354#

I believe we discussed this very gun a few years ago. You can see another, this one engraved by Geoffroy Gournet, on pages 38 & 39 of the Winter 2013 DGJ.

Now there is a picture I can live with. THIS is nobody's 00 frame. Thanks.

When taking another look at the 4/0-frame BHE .410 in the above link I cannot say with absolute certainty that the DHE engraved BHE that was shown in Vegas didn't have the single bead, too. As you can see, the bead appears a little different on the 4/0-frame than on the larger frames.

Yes, the entire bead and ball area is inletted into the frame on the 0000 frame gun. It is very different from the 00 frame configuration. The gun in the auction pictures is probably a Robert Petersen gun and was the buy of the century in Parker Repros. I have no idea who owns it now.

Can you believe the auction site predicted it would sell for $3000-$6000 :shock:!?

I stand corrected....)-: In the future I will ask questions, not make statements. This topic is filled with mystery and flawed info. This is the first time I learned about the true 0000 frame guns except for the prototype that Chaddic claimed to own, it being one of two made....sorry for any confusion. The thing that makes this all so confusing is that they marked the 410 barrels that fit 00 frame guns with same frame size, 0000!, how can that be correct? They must be different to fit the bigger 00 frames. The production stats in parker story states about 30 sets of 0000 frame barrels were made to fit 00 28ga. guns....ware did these other 0000 BHE barrels sets come from? I know about 13 set were mated to DHE 28 sets and some to 00 BHE and A-1s. Did they use the rest to make the BHE mini frame guns by altering them some how?? or did these true 0000 barrels get left out of the count? Research...research ...research....we must know...(-: SXS ohio

As I recall, the one Herschel Chaddick had was being offered at something like $23K at the time. Am I correct in my recollection?