The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[jim garrett]

How short is your short 10? I have just acquired a 2 5/8 short 10 and wondered how I would reload for it. After a short thinking session I added another MEC 1/2 spacer to my MEC loader that I load 2 7/8 " and the loads with Cheddite hulls look factory new. Sometimes a new problem is just a short challenge. Jim Garrett

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by chris dawe

I just the thread again and realized( or maybe missed it ) I have not added my GH grade 2 frame with 28 inch bbls, gun weighs 7 1/4 lbs... I also picked up a 32 inch Greener that weighs in at around 11 lbs ,the Parker is a 10 you could carry all day !

I just sold a Greener with fluid steel barrels back before Xmas . That one was 10 gauge 30" near as I can ascertain it was made about 1905 . The side safety on it was a touch different . I've got a 12 gauge Greener tang safety that I've owned for 40+ years . Killed a pile or two if birds with that one . I know I asked you before but what's your EH 28" choked ?

[chris dawe]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

I just sold a Greener with fluid steel barrels back before Xmas . That one was 10 gauge 30" near as I can ascertain it was made about 1905 . The side safety on it was a touch different . I've got a 12 gauge Greener tang safety that I've owned for 40+ years . Killed a pile or two if birds with that one . I know I asked you before but what's your EH 28" choked ?

Imp/Mod I believe ...its a walking hunters bird gun for sure

[jsd245]

So I’m just about ready - got my L.C. Smith grade
2 back from Buck Hamlin who did a pretty fantastic job on a gun that was very rough- and picked up 10 ga reloading setup from another member. Now who can help me with some low pressure bismuth reloading recipes so I can use this gun for Goose season next year?

[Dean Romig]

Right here....

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...oading+recipes






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[Dean Romig]

I have two short tens - one a Grade 3 Lifter and the other is a set of very stout 30", 2-frame Damascus barrels that I haven't finished fitting to my 1898 DH. This will make its 4th set of barrels. Barrel set #1 are the 30" Titanic barrels it was made with; barrel set #2 are 30" Damascus barrels Russ Bickel fit to the gun for me; barrel set #3 is a set of 26" Damascus barrels with open chokes; and barrel set#4 are these heavy 30" 10-gauge barrels with reversed chokes. Don't ask me why I did this.... "it was fun" is the best answer I can come up with.

The lifter has killed two nice longbeards for me and a couple of jakes.... who knows what my other 10 will do for me. But it'll be fun, whatever it is.






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[davidboyles]

Have acquired a parker hammer 1844 one set bibls 28 other 32 beautiful condtion Grade 3 on 3 frame just shot some doves with it already will soon go after long beards

[wayne goerres]

Is that date a typo. Maybe 1874 or 1884.

[davidboyles]

That was my typo the gun letters 1884

[jim garrett]

apparently I did not read my own thread of 1-28-18. Instead of adding a 1/2' spacer to the MEC setup for 2 7/8" shells I added a 1/4" spacer. A 2 3/8" 10 gauge would indeed be a short 10. By the way, the 2 5/8" shells shoot very well. Jim Garrett