Defining a Parker Long Range shotgun

[LtCol Henderson Marriott]

That is an interesting BHE Parker. Early accounts at Beaver Dam had Nash Buckingham
shooting ducks in the teens with a 34 inch Parker.

A Jan-Feb 1975 article in HANDLOADER magazine entitled "Super Goose Loads"
features lab-tested copper-plated 12 Ga 1 1/4 oz No. 2 and 1 3/8 oz BB loads that give 70 percent patterns at 70 yards. The author was alternating 2 3/4 in and 3 in 12 GA loading tests
but had to adjust back a bit due to pressures. Most were "Mini-Magnum 2 3/4 loaded shells". I can imagine. At any rate, that level
of performance comes at too high a price for most of our double guns. RST and Boss, or earlier reasonable pressure factory shells and/or custom hand crafted shot shells are preferred. It is, after all, what we chamber in our shotguns that may make them safely
worthy of the title "long range".