24" PHE 16

[Mills]

Ed Muderlak did a great article on short/cut barrels in an older Parker Pages. Are the barrels on this PH originally 24 inches?

[Richard Flanders]

Good question. I thought they were but am not sure now. There is no choke and someone posted that they were originally 28". Am waiting for someone to tell me what the "book" says. They look correct. They touch at the muzzles and keels are in place and the rib blank looks right, not like it was made by grinding the matting off. When Trigg bought it he did so thinking they were original. It balances about 1" rear of the hinge pin.

[Mills]

The book does say 28, but that does not mean it will not make a good gun as is. I have an EH with cut barrels that I love to shoot.

[Pa SxS]

Suponski, "From my cold dead hands"

You can be 4th in line after my daughters, nephew, then you.:

[Dennis]

That is a very nice gun indeed. Hunt well with it.

[Jean Swanson]

When I lived in Nashua,NH I purchased a PHE 28 bore with 24" barrels choked mod and full . I am a poor shot and I could not hit a damn thing with it . I had Herb Stretemeyer form Hollis, NH open the chokes to .004 and.014 . I use the gun now for woodcock and grouse and it is deadly. A great little gun in thick cover and light enough to easly carry in one hand in the thick grouth of cut over land.

[Mills]

Now that sounds like a nice gun

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

When I lived in Nashua,NH I purchased a PHE 28 bore with 24" barrels choked mod and full . I am a poor shot and I could not hit a damn thing with it . I had Herb Stretemeyer form Hollis, NH open the chokes to .004 and.014 . I use the gun now for woodcock and grouse and it is deadly. A great little gun in thick cover and light enough to easly carry in one hand in the thick grouth of cut over land.

[edgarspencer]

0 framed and even one frame 16ga barrels will still be touching several inches back from the muzzle. I was sure that a 24" 0 frame 16ga lifter I had, had not been cut, but it had no choke, and book said it was originally 28".

[Dean Romig]

Book - schmook... Get a letter. The S&I book says my 28 ga. DHE has 28" barrels but the Order Book confirms their 24" length.

[Richard Flanders]

I think you're right Dean. This thing looks a bit too right to be a chop job done at NAPA... It has to be worth a letter. Tx for the prod; I'd been thinking just that.