LGS finds today

[matt koepnick]

Went to the OGCA new venue at Spooky Nook Mills OHIO location. Overall, it was a successful new host location. Among the Doubles I ran across,there were 2 Parker items of great interest.
A vender had a DH, and GH both in 12 gauge. Both had 28 inch , uncut Damascus bbls with 2 3/4 chambers. PG, Splinter, DT's. Drops were almost spot on for me. Bad news was, chokes were cyl, and lite skeet. The DH was in really nice shape with flame wood grain. Butt Pad with widow's peak feature had been added.
Engraving was still clear. Fairly nice priced at a Grand for either one. Just wasn't enough choke for me to talk myself into buying either one. Still a nice priced, good condition, on my wish -list find. Pricing seems to be a sign of the times in the 12-gauge world. Almost finally had one...dangit.!
Mattly

[Harold Pickens]

I like open chokes for my style of hunting, but tight chokes are fine also. I would wager that neither chokes or chambers are origina, but that wouldn't bother me much at that price.

[Researcher]

How did you measure the chokes? With early Parker Bros. guns notoriously overbored, a plug gauge, made to modern day industry specs, is no use at all.

[Bill Murphy]

2 3/4" chambers on a Damascus gun means somebody has "been in there". A drop in choke gauge that measures cylinder usually means modified or full in an early gun as Dave mentions.

[matt koepnick]

Luckily the owner at the table had an dial guage inside bore micrometer. Were bored at .750ish with zero reduction at RT bbl end. Had less than.004 choke on LT side. I didn't bring my Skeeters gauge, which would have given me more exact numbers. Close enough to decide no.. Thanks
Mattly

[Peter Raymer]

This is a fantastic educational post. I’m in the early stages and would love to pick up a Parker 20ga at some point. I would have never thought about a modern day insert giving a false choke read. Good to know

[edgarspencer]

Peter, you find the above over-bore comments pretty reliable on large bores, but an early 20 won't be much, if at all, over bored.

[Peter Raymer]

Thank you for the clarification! I will certainly lean on you guys before I make a purchase. I really appreciate your help