Wanted: .410 Barrels for 28 Gauge Repro

[Mike Bartlett]

The 28-.410 Repro set that I own is built on a 00 28 ga frame. The .410 barrel frame is wider, the barrels are spaced wider, the rib is wider and the .410 barrels do not touch at the terminal end. As a result, the .410 barrels are infact heavier than the 28 ga. barrels; both are 26". The .410 repro barrel lug is marked 0000, but they are 00. This is not the case with my original 28 and .410. My V-grade .410 is marked 000, narrower frame, narrower rib and barrels touch at the terminal end; barrel wgt 2-8. My V-grade 28 is marked 00 and barrel wgt 2-10; again both 26". Hopefully this helps with some of the aforementioned questions.

[Bill Murphy]

Mike, sorry for my error in the first sentence of my post, now corrected. Of course, you are correct, the 28-.410 combos were made on the 00 frame. You have mentioned something that I and maybe others were not aware of. The .410 combo sets were, by your description, also marked 0000 and were actually 00 frames. I have never inspected a combo set but I have looked at a bunch of one barrel .410 guns, which were also marked 0000.

[Wild Skies]

This thread has morphed into something weird and is getting weirder and weirder by the post. A couple of posters (and I'm not talking about Mike) that claim to be owners of Parker Reproductions apparently are having a little trouble knowing what they actually have.

Yes, I know that it has been reported that the firing pin separation of a Parker Reproduction .410 0000-frame and a Parker Bros. .410 000-frame are both the same at 13/16", but the frames do indeed look different...at least to my eyes, and I've got the pics that show these differences.

Until an owner of a real and actual .410 0000-frame Parker Reproduction comes forward and posts actual dimensions of their gun's frame dimensions, this thread will continue with misinformation and being weird.