two barrel sites

[Daniel G Rainey]

From watching the internet gun sale sites and the guns for sale on this site, It appears to me that most two barrel sets were in D grade or higher and were 12 ga. This makes since to me, because most Parkers were 12's and the hunters purchasing the higher grade guns were the ones that could afford the two barrel sets. Have noticed several 20 ga. sets but can recall very few in 16 ga. Are there many 16 ga. sets out there ?

[Jeff K.]

I have a che 16 two barrel set.

[charlie cleveland]

i dont have any 16 ga parkers...and at the local gun shows i have never seen a 16 ga parker at these shows in 25 years...in fact i have never seen many parkers in my lifetime of 72 years...i do have a 16 ga lc smith got it from a cousin...charlie

[B. Dudley]

I wouldn't paint the topic with such a broad brush.

[Bill Murphy]

I have a three barrel 16 gauge GHE. 24", 28", and 30". The original 26" barrels are missing.

[C.O.B.]

I have a GHE 16 skeet/trap set an AHE 20/28 set and have sold more than one 20ga two bbl set.

[Bob K]

One of the first Parker's I owned was a Trojan 16 two barrel set. Traded away long ago for another Parker I "needed". Wish I still owned it!

[C.O.B.]

I have never found the added value in the second set of barrels and I have several two barrel sets The GHE 16 has never had the trap barrels on it and I've owned it for close to 15 years.

[Ron Scott]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

I have never found the added value in the second set of barrels and I have several two barrel sets The GHE 16 has never had the trap barrels on it and I've owned it for close to 15 years.

I agree. At one time it might have made sense to have a 4 barrel skeet gun so you could shoot all the gauges in competition but now they use one set of barrels and tubes.

As far as hunting goes you might be able to make a case for two sets of barrels with different lengths and different chokes -- one for waterfowl and one for upland birds. But now that we have screw in chokes that has changed.

If you reload you can load a 12 gauge down to what would normally be a 20 gauge load and it will probably pattern better than what the 20 gauge barrels would have.

There is so much overlap in the gauges that you can effectively achieve 3 gauges in one. And if you want to go beyond that ... say from 12 down to 28 or 410 the frame is way too big, so multiple barrels really don't serve much purpose beyond the first one stated: one barrel for waterfowl and one for the uplands.

But they do look nice in a leather case!

[Harry Collins]

I have a VH two barrel set. The 26" barrels have .015 & .025 constriction and makes the gun very handy for sporting clays and most bird hunting. The 30" barrels have .030 & .042 constriction. The long barrels win money shooting wobble and double trap.