lightest and heaviest parker barrels
 

i ve asked this question before but never really got a good answer..what are the lightest and the heaviest barrels did parker make on there guns..my lightest are 2 lbs 8 ounce on a 20 ga the heaviest are on a 8 ga at 8 lbs 6 ounce.. charlie

Charlie, my PH 8 clocks in at 9/1;
My GHE 20 is stamped 3/1. The 8 has 36" barrels and the 20, 28.

Charlie: I have a 10 Ga. that the barrels weight is at 9.7 pounds and a 20 Ga. with 26 inch barrels that are 2.85 but these barrels have been sleeved so wouldn't count. Thomas

Marked weight only.

My big ten Vulcan Steel ten is marked 8-14. I know it isn't the heaviest Parker going, but it it one of them. For fluid steel, it's pretty heavy. As soon as I can get to the scale, I'll weigh the whole gun. As I recall, its 13-8 or close. It is some Parker shotgun, more impressive than the eights.

The ten I discussed in the previous post is # 121593 . I finally got it on the scale and it weighs 13 pounds, 10 ounces. A previous owner was a Doctor in Palestine, Texas, who was not the person who ordered the gun, but was probably the person who had the ten gauge barrels made at Parker Brothers. His name and home town is professionally engraved on the trigger guard, but the exact spelling of the name is not legible, yet. The ten gauge barrels were a second set, and the forend lug and forend are marked "2". The eight gauge Twist Steel barrels are missing. I sure would like to find them.

sounds like aheavy weight 10 ga fore sure makes my 11 lb 8ounce gun a wimp..bill i hope some day you find these barrels that are 8 ga..if there was ever a pair of barrels that need reuniting these 2 barrels do...i would like to have met the guy who ordered this gun ...thanks for shareing this great storey it would make a great storey for parker pages.. charlie

Charlie, I have a baggo information on the original Nebraska homesteader family that originally owned this Parker. Studying this family was an astounding history of homesteading and farming on pre 1900 Nebraska prairie. I can only imagine the killing this gun was involved in to sustain the family and their neighbors. Although the gun was ordered after 1900, the family history precedes the building of this gun by decades.

My 8 ga GH barrels are 9lbs 1 ounce stamped weight

Greg, do you know what your gun weighs?