Parker Gun Collectors Association Forums

Parker Gun Collectors Association Forums (https://parkerguns.org/forums/index.php)
-   General Parker Discussions (https://parkerguns.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2)
-   -   Parker 2 3/4 Chambers (https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43918)

James Comer 03-21-2025 07:45 AM

Parker 2 3/4 Chambers
 
What year did Parker start shipping 12 gauges with 2 3/4 chambers?

Dave Noreen 03-21-2025 09:21 AM

2 Attachment(s)
When the customer asked for them. Even the Remington era specification sheets, reproduced in The Parker Story, show 2 5/8-inch chambers, intended for 2 3/4-inch shells.

Attachment 132463

The surviving Parker Bros. hang tags I've seen are sometimes quite confusing. Here is a tag for a 1925 vintage gun which shows it targeted with 1 1/4-ounce load but says "Use Shells 2 5/8 Long" --

Attachment 132464

However, our North American ammunition companies quit offering loads heavier than 1 1/8-ounce in 2 5/8-inch 12-gauge shells in 1907. From 1907 onwards one had to get 2 3/4-inch or longer 12-gauge shells for the 1 1/4-ounce loads. The progressive burning smokeless powder, high velocity 1 1/4-ounce 12-gauge loads, Western Super-X, Peters High Velocity, Remington Heavy Duck Load which soon morphed into the Nitro Express, came out in 1922, all put up in 2 3/4-inch cases. Knowing the North American nimrods desire to use the heaviest loads he could lay his hands one, these old 12-gauge doubles digested lots of them from their introduction into the 1990s when we started worrying about such things.

James Comer 03-21-2025 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen (Post 427424)
When the customer asked for them. Even the Remington era specification sheets, reproduced in The Parker Story, show 2 5/8-inch chambers, intended for 2 3/4-inch shells.

Thanks, I was wondering when it became the norm. For 2 3/4 chambers because I seen a Parker letter on a 1896 that had 2 3/4 chambers

Dean Romig 03-21-2025 11:20 AM

That was most likely by request.





.


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:44 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 1998 - 2025, Parkerguns.org