16 gauge GHE finds a good home

Brian H · 02-09-2015, 11:08 PM

At a gun show this weekend I ran into 82646 16 gauge GHE on a 0 frame. Its a neat little gun that is in the book as a hammerless, pistol grip, no extras and 26" barrels. Probably a typo on the extras as it most definitely has ejectors. It retains the original Damascus barrels choked Cyl./Mod, has 2 9/16 chambers, is stamped 3lb 2oz with no less than 9 little dings in them. Back in the day it was modified to a straight grip in a tasteful way, the stock was cut to 12 7/8" with a pad and spacer making it 14". I bought the gun from a aging farmer no less than 80 years in age. The farmer said a farmhand that boarded with his family left it behind while he was still living at home 60 years prior. He said he had not shot the gun in over 40 years.

82646 is nothing particularly special but any time a new parker surfaces from a closet is a better day for Parker people. Here are the before pictures and I will have after pictures in a few months.

6pt-Sika · 02-09-2015, 11:12 PM

Congrats !

Fred Slyfield · 02-09-2015, 11:42 PM

Very nice , I wonder who did the alteration from pistol grip to straight??

David Noble · 02-10-2015, 02:06 AM

Actually, this is an extractor gun not an ejector, but nice find anyway. Looking forward to the after pics.

Dean Romig · 02-10-2015, 08:08 AM

To each his own - but if it were mine I wouldn't change a thing besides re-cutting the checkering and then burnishing it to soften it. What a pretty little shooter! Great find!

Brian H · 02-10-2015, 08:23 AM

I am not a very smart guy but this gun has ejectors.

Dean Romig · 02-10-2015, 08:30 AM

No, it has an extractor that lifts both shells at the same time. Ejectors pop the fired shells one at a tim or simultaneously depending if one or both shells are fired.

Bobby Goins · 02-10-2015, 08:43 AM

Sweet gun with an interesting story!

Brian H · 02-10-2015, 08:47 AM

Hey guys I am a young guy of 45 from Ohio that barely made through secondary education let alone college. If this gun ain't got ejectors then I will buy each of you a steak vs a cup coffee to me the next time I see you.......those are odds of ignorant confidence or I know what it means when the little shell things pop out. Pictures after my day job this evening.

Bill Murphy · 02-10-2015, 09:08 AM

I'd like to see a picture of the ejector mechanism so we can determine whether the ejectors are Parker or some other type.