Barrel Flat Marking

[Steven Dodd Hughes]

My thanks to all for your insight. I guess we can sum up the HTA and K markings as "unknown" or "unexplainable".

Anyone study barrel weights as in: these are marked 3/13 ("before striking") and now weight 3/5. That seems like a lot of difference especially with the parts added. Any known definitive explanation?

The reason for this gun appearing in my column it that it is the most generic Parker I have in my workshop. I have never featured Parker guns in my 20 years writing Fine Gunmaking for Shooting Sportsman. It is an opportunity to introduce basic Parker info, the PGCA (great website!), a few lesser known books and an internal view of the gun to the readership.

I hope you aficionados approve when you see the column (July/Aug 2013?)
Best,
Steve

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Steven Dodd Hughes

Anyone study barrel weights as in: these are marked 3/13 ("before striking") and now weight 3/5.

Steven,
In the Spring 2011 issue of Parker Pages, our recently departed friend and author Austin Hogan with the help of a few members did an artical on page 28 entitled "An Old Yankee Adage". In it he compiled a number of stats of which the struck and unstruk barrel weight of a number of guns of various barrel lengths and gauges were listed. In reviewing this information, 8oz seems about average for a 12 gauge in the 28" to 30" range. If your gun were a 26" 20 gauge I would say the 8oz was a bit excessive. If you don't have a copy of this artical and feel it would be useful, let me know and i would be happy to send you a scan for your research. Larry