Foolish thinking?
 

It is as much of wishful thinking that a second non numbered set of barrels would work without fitting on a Parker reproduction as much as it is on an original? Please educate me.

Luck of the draw.

In my experience it is a 50/50 proposition.
One set of orphan 28 ga. Repro barrels fit Perfectly while another set of 28 ga. Barrels require some fitting… oretty much the same as original orphan barrels fitting right onto an Original Parker…

Like Jim says, it’s a crapshoot. Or “luck of the draw.”





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Repro barrel interchangeably is usually very good. Often requiring little to no fitting.

I find that the 12 and 20 barrel sets can be fussy and like Dean said, he is correct about the chance of direct fitment without some gunsmithing. Most of the time the issue is the top lever not closing fully and staying way right. My experience with the 28 and 410 barrels are really good and I have had great luck swopping barrels around. In the summer I use one of my long length of pull frames and swap the barrel sets that has the choke set up I want. I have 2 sets of 28" barrels that have had the chokes opened for hunting. Fixing the over choke as supplied. These barrels can move from one frame to another with no issue. I also have 3 one barrel sets of 12 gauge that all the barrels fit the one double trigger frame and the for ends interchange too, splinter or beaver tail. One is a steel shot special, one is a sporting clays classic and the last is a 28" PG-Dt-SF 3" chamber hunting gun that is the frame that takes all three berrels and forends, sweet....(-:

I agree Kenny that the top lever can present a problem.
Right now I’m in the process of fitting an orphan set of 28 gauge Repro barrels that will not even close…
I’ll get into it after the holidays but I suspect the forward face of the rear section of the lug needs to be lightly dressed down with a fine diamond file. I’ll need to smoke it as I work on it.





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I am assuming that this sort of a job is not something someone would want to attempt for the first time on a gun of this caliber? My ego is telling me it's as simple as some fine filing here or there given the nature of the more modern machining methods used on these, but my brain is telling me that filing where you ought not to would make this job 10X more expensive and 1000X more complicated than it should have been.

…that’s why we smoke the surfaces after every couple of file strokes.






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Well that answers the question of should I attempt it myself :rotf:

Dylan, I bought one of the 26”, Q1, Q2 12 gauge barrels Josh had and I was able to fit them by filing the wear plate on the the new barrels. The forend fitting took some filing on the breach side of the forend lug. I also fit a forend to a set of 28”, 20 gauge repro barrels to a straight grip, double trigger repro I bought recently.