16 gauge on #2 frame
 

Received a gun today that I bought on the net. P grade serial # 59792, the seller advised the gun as 12 ga. 30", with perfect damascus bbls. and as I have been looking for a set of bbls. with forend for a project I bought it. Obviously he wasn't too up on shotguns, it is as described except it is a 16 ga. (will still work for the project, DH 12 ga. 30" into a two bbl. set) Wondering how common the 16 ga. was on the #2 frame. Usual very low stock but it feels like it would point well.
Regards, John Hancock

Very scarce variation. Don't cannibalize this gun to make your two barrel set. Can we see pictures? Are the barrels Damascus, as the seller described, or Twist, as is usual for the P grade?

John check your pms

John, I find it hard to believe that you are still alive! Stranger things have happened, by the way you are the one that signed the Declaration of Independence?

16 gauge on #2 frame
 

Thanks for the thoughts on the P gun, #2 frame, 16 gauge. Having seen and bought several Parkers I did think this was somewhat of an odd configuration. As it is a pretty nice gun I think I'll likely stock it so I can shoot it, having shot trap since 1960 I seem to only shoot well with guns stocked a lot higher than Parker put on most of the early guns that I have seen. Re: the bbls. Yes they are marked damascus, I took some pic today and hope I can remember how to put them with this. The bbls. are really bright and pretty well perfect, bores are .663" and .664" with chokes in both bbls. 030".
I haven't seen an abundance of Parkers and this is the first one I recall not having a slotted screw in the hinge joint. How unusual is this? Thanks for your coments. John Hancock

John I have the gun and the barrels you need for that 12 ga. Eric

If it letters with those barrels it is very likely a unique Parker.

Save the stock that you remove in order to maintain the integrity of the original gun.

Let's see a picture of the open breech. What's the unstruck barrel weight?

All the numbers match I suppose.

I'd get a letter from Mark on that serial number before I did anything to that gun!! There are a number of 2-frame 20-gauge guns in existance, so while 2-frame 16-gauges are far from common, they are not unique.