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Started late last week on some 10 gauge stuff . Mostly light target/dove/quail loads . Red Dot 18.6 grains and 1 1/8 ounces of shot . Done about 275 with #8 shot another 260 with #7 1/2 and I’ll load 100 more Monday with #9’s to give me 250+ of them . Also loaded the handful of RST/Chedditte 10 gauge hulls I had as well as about a dozen 10 gauge with an x10x has seal instead of the SP-10 wad and enough card wads to get the 730 grain slug crimped to suit me , pushing these with SR7625.

I don't shoot well enough to differentiate between 7 1/2, 8 or 9
My target loads (skeet or clays), are all 1oz 7 1/2. How can 9's break more skeet targets?

Perhaps with a little more density around the patterns fringe if the target is not well centered???

This is more of using components than anything else . Years ago I was very particular about shot size , after I quit competing #8 was the do all . But now I’ve gotten a pile of shot from estates of friends no longer with us etc . So if ya got it why not use it .

hope you got a lite 10 ga for those quail hunts...back in the late 1800 s the 10 ga was the preferred quail gun...ive hunted doves with my 10 ga s a few times wish I would have had your no 9 loads... charlie

I have an EH 28” and a Grade 0 top lever 26” that would do okay for dove/quail should the need arise . But I expect the little VH 28 and perhaps the VHE 20 will get the call .

How much heft would be considered light for a 10 ga?

I think my W&C Scott crystal indicator gun is 8 or less . It feels light after hefting most of my others although my EH on the 2 frame with 28 inch barrels isn't what I'd call heavy .

I too would consider any 10 ga under 8 lbs is a lite gun in my book....but a 9 1/4 lb 10 ga don't feel heavy the way a parker is balanced....charlie

Charlie, I have one 9 lbs. even and it balances in a way that it seems light until it's not between the hands so to speak. Every one who handles it says the same thing, that it handles like a much lighter gun. I tell them '' quality shows in many ways''.

I’ve got a friend that has an early early Westley Richards 10 gauge hammergun that feels like a 16 gauge . Think that gun was made in the late 1860’s .

My 27" DH Damascus ten weighs seven pounds four ounces. My Krupp barrel 26" Sauer weighs six pounds four ounces. Somehow, the Sauer has perfectly acceptable wall thickness.

sounds like bill has the perfect bird gun..how is this gun choked bill... and where did you come up on this light weight 10.....charlie

Ive seen a few sub 8lb 10 gauges before .
Heres a 7lb Parker 10 gauge https://www.gunbroker.com/item/868437572
Would be interesting to see the letter on that one .

I read on another forum a fellow had a English 10 gauge that was 7lbs he used for quail.


Charlie ill dig it up later but I also seen a 7lb double 4 bore :shock:

7lbs 13 oz double 4 bore pigeon gun https://www.theexplora.com/harris-ho...ve-pigeon-gun/

this 10 ga for sale would be a good piece in any body s collection...and that 4 bore is an awesome gun...if there were still plenty of quail around my neck of the woods and I was younger I would be interested in this light 10 ga...now bill s 6 lb 10 ga really got my attention...charlie

Kind of odd it has cyl/cyl bores with 32" barrels if they are uncut which they claim to be . Charlie im surprised no one has made a titanium frame double gun with the or a titanium barreled one . A timascus double would be a thing to look at .

Parkers did make a #1 frame 10 ga I wonder what the weight on that thing was if anyone knows ?

I have an order copy for the #1 frame ten gauge, but it is buried right now. A search would probably uncover it on this forum. As I recall, the order did not mention weight.

Milton, I don't see where the gunbroker ten was listed at 7 pounds. Did you read something that you did not really see?

Last picture shows 7lbs , he has some English made 10s in that range also .
I think that may be the lightest 2 frame 10 he has . The other ones I think are in the 8.5lb range .

Actually it isn’t 7 pounds that’s 7 pounds 2 1/2 ounces . Granted that’s not a great amount over 7 pounds but it isn’t 7 pounds it’s more .

True but I figured it was close enough but I know when carrying it in the field a few ounces may make a big difference to someone .

I think that Parkers has 32" barrels so if it was 30" it would probably break even at 7lbs . It being lighter than the other 2 frame 10s listed I suppose it has thinner barrels than the others one ?

Milton, I hope, as a friend, you are not considering purchasing the 7 pound Parker. That is one poor excuse for a $2000 Parker. $200 would be closer to its real value.

I agree completely with Bill. That gun has so many flaws if it were mine I would pay somebody to take it away....





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Talk about a few extra ounces... This is my set of 30" ten gauge 2-frame Damascus barrels ( 57043 ) that I fitted to my 2-frame DH ( 90739 ).

I hope you can easily read the pre-struck weight of these barrels.... it is 5 lbs., 11 oz. and the gun balances almost 3 inches forward of the hinge pin.

The original 30" 12 ga. set of Titanic barrels are 4, 2 and the 30" 12 ga. set of Damascus barrels I had Russ Bickel fit to it are stamped 4, 1.


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