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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
John D.
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07-25-2021, 01:38 PM
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I found this information from Dr. Drew posts.
From the German proof house:
minimal wall thickness at end of chamber, regardless of length, for 12, 16 & 20 gauge guns should be 2.3mm (.0906") for 'ordinary good steel' or 2.1mm (.0827") if a 'Special Steel' was used. For the 24 & 28 gauges, due to their higher pressures, 2.4mm (.0945") was recommended.
Minimal wall of .6mm (.0236") was recommended in the "forward third" of the barrel.
I measured my O frame Parker 20ga and it measured .096 in front of the chamber and my Fox CE 20ga .098.
All my Parkers are Damascus 20ga to 8ga. 99% of my clay target shooting is not for score so in 12 ga I shoot 3/4oz at 1200fps Clay Dot powder @5600psi. If I miss some clay targets due to the reduced load, I could give a dam, because the reduced stress on the gun is more important to me than than my score. But then it comes to live birds I use the max load for which the gun was originally built.
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07-25-2021, 04:31 PM
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Craig;
What is your ClayDot load for the 12ga.? I recently ran out of Extra Lite and switched over to Clays, which I understand is similar to ClayDot.
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