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Anyone,
I am a long time grouse hunter looking into a Parker VH 16 (ser.#193xxx ) that seems to be circa 1921. The gun is choked IC\M . Will I be satisfied with performance with 2 1\2 loads (chambered at 2 9\16 ) as far as availability and selection. I also wondered how these guns perform with modern powders and the higher pressures . Any insights will be helpfull.

Thank you,

Related to original PGCA member Ed Taddeo from Fruita, Colorado?

I have a 1921 PHE 16ga and have regularly shot for thousands of rounds all 16ga loads , Win, Rem, Fed, etc from 7/8oz to 1 1/8 oz. Page 515 of The Parker Story contains a table listing Parker used service load pressures, average and maximum, plus proof pressures. All 1 oz /1200 fps factory loads that I know of will be within the service load approved pressures.

My old 16 has about 80,000 rounds through it and no sign of being off face, stock issues, etc.

I think that VH will be your new 'go to' grouse gun. Those are the right chokes for grouse and Bruce has given you good advice on loads.

Thanks guys
 

Thanks guys,
I did not know how the 2 1\2 16 would pattern . I have always grouse hunted with various 20 loads in an old browning (depending on time of the season ) and now reserve myself not to shoot a bird that is not pointed. Change is good and if I can get the vh I think I will step back a few years in time and give it hell in the grouse coverts this fall.

Thanks again