The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

I have no way to measure as I have no guages.
i do know that the BBLS were shortened at some time as well.

George if you can find a smith who has and knows how to properly use a wall thickness gauge it would be most interesting to know how your gun measures. You have a most unique Parker 10 bore.

[Joe Wood]

At the risk of being excommunicated from this august forum I'll confess to having received a "new" 10 bore yesterday. It's a William Moore of London made no later than '75. Jones underlever, laminated barrels, and forend wedge. Plain gun but in very high original. condition. Weighs 8/14.

Leighton, thats a serious 10 bore you have there.


William Moore, circa ? to 1875

[charlie cleveland]

nothing like a ten bore...fellows them are some nice tens even if they are forign made .... that long barrel ten would make a fineturkey getter and the short one a good crow gun...i can see the parker is already a turkey getter nice gun and a beautiful long beard... charlie ps just kiddin bout the forign made i also have a old hammer claybrough abd sons 10 ga...

[Bruce Day]

Letters at:
1891 CH No. 2 frame, 26" 10ga cyl & cyl

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Pete- here is the letter. I just learned to attach stuff so hopefully it works.

The barrels are now 25 or 26 inches long so 2 or 3 inches were removed. Front sight is nicely in place so it looks like a professional (Parker?) job.
wouldnt some of the barrels HAVE to be removed to go from 12 gauge to 10 gauge?

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

Pete- here is the letter. I just learned to attach stuff so hopefully it works.

The barrels are now 25 or 26 inches long so 2 or 3 inches were removed. Front sight is nicely in place so it looks like a professional (Parker?) job.
wouldnt some of the barrels HAVE to be removed to go from 12 gauge to 10 gauge?

Thanks for sharing. The gun is a Grade 2, a GH rather than a Grade 1 or PH as stated earlier, (Dam vs. Twist). It would still be interesting to learn of the bore ID and barrel wall thickness after the rechambering to 10ga. Two dollars went a long way back then! I wonder if the gun was severely pitted and rather than overbore a 12 they made it a 10???

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Pete
My bad on the grade. I have called it a PH ever since DelGrego called it a PH 12 in 1991[I can show you the letter!!]. The receiver is so dark with corrosion the engraving is hard to make out.
It is a 2 frame. Damascus markings. Can't see any patterns at all.
Now that i have learned, I will post some photos.

[Don Kaas]

I like shooting these guns. They are easy to reload for and as I have a number of "short tens" I shoot them for waterfowl and the occasional spring gobbler- a 32" #3 frame D2 Parker toplever hammer (that also has a set of 32" Belgian made steel 3 1/2" barrels), a 30" #3 frame PT toplever hammer, a 36" D2 #3 frame GH and a rather nice Lindner Daly A&D action with 30" Damascus barrels and 32" 3" 12g and 32" 3 1/2" 10g fluid steel barrels added by ARMAF the same Liege firm that added the magnum barrels to the D2 Parker. (see below)

[Don Kaas]

For reference on Dean's query, I have a nice set of #2 frame D3 barrels #56815 that I just measured with the following dimensions- 32", 5-13 unstruck weight, 5lb 4 oz currently. WT@ at chamber end (2 7/8") is .120", WT at 12" from breech is .075 and the MWT (in a quick measure) is .060. The bores are both .790. These were with Russ Bickel at the time of his death to be added to my D3 32" #2 frame 20 gauge #186822...got to find another 'smith to do that job. I am going to miss Russ and his Moldmender micro wonder welding for tightening and barrel fitting.

[charlie cleveland]

don you certainly have some very interesting 10 ga s ...i really like the sound of those 36 inch barrels...appreciate the telling about them and the pictures.... charlie