My guess, and someone else will likely have a better explanation - a previous owner didn't enjoy carrying those 36" barrels around in the field, and found the 28" barrels which had been orphaned from another gun. The 36" barrels were left sitting in a closet somewhere, separate from the gun. When the gun was sold either nobody remembered the other barrels, or nobody knew about them. Hopefully they will turn up again someday to be reunited with the rest. 2 is the frame size of both guns, that's why the other set of barrels were able to be fitted to the gun. If the second set of barrels had been provided by Parker, then Parker would have numbered them to the gun. Lots of examples of factory supplied second barrels done in this manner.
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Will makes some excellent points and I agree with all of them. - Dean Romig 03-13-2013
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