I wonder if the very earliest guns that show skeet characteristics and may be described as skeet guns in the stock books possibly DO NOT have the skeet choke markings? Of course, some approved researcher would have to gain access to our stock book copies. Who can post what they consider a very early skeet choke marked serial number. My earliest is 236,868. Maybe our resident skeet gun collector would post his earliest serial number. In the Serialization Book, the option code for skeet configuration is "14". The earliest 26" gun with option code 14 is #235,944. The next "14" that is not a .410 is #236,029. I will discount the .410s because they may or not be skeet guns. My opinion is that .410 skeets may not be skeet choked regardless of how they are marked. I would be interested to know whether skeet configured and skeet choked Parkers in the early 236,000 range have skeet in and skeet out markings or not.
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