VH 10 gauge
 

Here is the most recent new member of the gun room. 230xxx sn range. Not in book or surviving records but appears all original with few minor glitches.

Very nice Mills! What frame size and barrel length? That looks like a great gun for the duck blind, along with some other places. I like it!

Frame size 3. Barrel length 30"

:envy::envy: I like it no doubt ����

I don't have any fluid steel 10s(yet...) That is a nice one for sure.

This is my first fluid steel 10.

Mills,

That is nice. If I had that it would satisfy all my needs for a big Parker gun for turkeys. I'm guessing 3.5" chambers? What is the maximum you plan to shoot in it? What is the weight? It will take a bipod to hold it up if a turkey is on the way slowly.

I need to check the chambers and weigh it. It is heavy, but not as heavy as some other 10 gauges I have and certainly not like the 8 gauge.

Great purchase Mills!! I hope to see a PP article featuring your new addition in the future. A real low country cannon. Congratulations

Thanks for the compliments!

Craig, I hope to get it in a PP article, but it might have to wait until duck season. With luck, though, I will get a turkey with it this weekend

mills you have found a very desireable gun for sure....i have yet to hold a fluid steel parker 10 ga in my hands....i hope you get a chance at a turkey this weekend with this gun.....i hope the chambers are 3 1/2 .....thats a good picture of your boy and the gun hes really growed.....charlie

Great gun!! From 1889 through at least 1929, when it was over stamped Discontinued, the PH-/PHE- was the lowest grade offered in 10-gauge. By the 1930 catalog the VH-/VHE- carried the line "10 gauge may be obtained in this grade, at $10.00 additional." With a serial number in the 230xxx range this must be one of the first, of the very few, VH-Grade 10-gauges made. By the serial number chronology in the back of The Parker Story, 1929. The 3 1/2 inch Magnum-10 wasn't introduced until 1932.

I'd hope they are not.

So, is the guy in the last photo the dealer...and did he sell it to you from the back of his truck?! :biglaugh:

That young man will have a pretty darned nice gun room someday...

To ride a horse, shoot a gun, and have good table manners goes a long way in the South. Mills and Harry have class.

Table manners need work but thank you.

Was sick today so didn't make it out hunting but did hit some clays and it did well

Looked through the serialization book and mine is by far the earliest VH 10 by serial number. Unless there is one before 228000 which is about where I started looking. I did not find too many in the serialization book. Parker story says there are 20 known and I bet this one was unknown until I found it so that makes 21.

Investigation continues. . .

Very nice, hopefully the young shooter will get to use it.
Jim

Harry got a participation award for graduating from lower school today. That's my boy. The valedictorian was a nerd