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Originally Posted by William Davis
I have a 30 inch Damascus GH with barrels marked 3 12 Chokes are 30 & 38 guns weight is 7 lbs 6 oz on a postage scale.
William
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Thanks, William. This seems to be on the lighter side, would you agree. **I'll bet it's great to carry and shoot.** Is this also on a #1 frame?
Parkers get knocked for being heavier than, say, Fox or Ithaca guns, and I certainly have very lightweight Foxes and Ithacas. I just bought the GH in question above and a very early CE grade Fox (30 inch barrels, although not Damascus of course). It weighs 7 lbs. 11 oz. (no barrel weight markings -- too early for that I suspect). Certainly too small a sample size to draw any conclusions, but I hope we'll find that there are more lighter weight Damascus 12s than one might expect.