Mike says it mics out to 14ga bore dimensions. Mike is or has contacted Mark to make sure because the website says there are factory records. He has had bored out 16's before and says this is distinguishable from them. The SN is in the correct range for 14ga guns.
As for shooting the gun, no, you can't go buy factory shells, but I understand that some have brass shells made and reload them. I don't know anything more about it than that. I do know that some collectors want guns in all gauges, and for such a person, if this gun checks out, it might be something they are interested in. We had an all gauge exhibit with Pheasants Forever maybe a couple years ago and had an 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 28 and 410 that we had borrowed and pulled together. We only had a 24 ga lacking. I think its a novelty ga but some folks, that's just what they are looking for.
As for missing records, I think any Parker collector has read the cautions in the Serialization Book that large blocks of SN's are missing, and since the same records were used for both TPS and the SN book, its understandable that they are only tools that can be used. And then we have all seen wrong records in the books for guns that were as right as rain. So, we'll see how this one letters, at least there is that record here. As an aside, I have a rare and unusual gun with anomolies for its age, and several have looked at it and believe its original. No record of the gun in any of the books or the PGCA records.
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