Parker Pages carried an article on barrel dimensions in the Spring 2010 issue. Dave Suponski and Larry Frey are continuing a study of the tooling and methods used in making Parker barrels for upcoming issues.
We have been able to obtain some "new" 10 gauge cases, and 12 gauge wads from the 1890 - 1900 time period to support the barrel studies. We would like to obtain measurements of length, inside diameter, paper thickness, base wad shape, overpowder wad length, and other physical properties of shells of all gauges from the 1880 - 1920 period. If you have the measuring equipment a table of measurements would be of great help. If you have some fired or new unprimed cases, we can measure them and return them in a week. If you have some new primed cases, we can measure them at the Southern.
thanks, Austin
austin.w.hogan@valley.net