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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
They are effectively the same. It is a bit of a holdout from the early grading system. In the hammer gun days there was a myriad of grade letters for the guns. The gauge and also grip configuration determined the grade. Letters like R, T and U were used for grades, among many others.
The NH was a hammerless 10 or 8g and it came later when the N was dropped as a separate grade that they all just became PH grades. Regardless of gauge.
A study of the grades section of TPS would be worthwhile. As well as period catalogs.
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I have been looking at some Parker catalogs on different sites for sale , I would like to get a earlier one around the time my Parkers was built .
Ive had the idea of picking up a small bore PH to go with my NH 10 ga and they look almost identical besides the frame size of course .
A slightly different question , ive seen a few Parkers listed as PT grade which ive read is not a grade but means plain twist barrels . Which I assume could be either a grade 1 or 0 ?