The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

Very nice Craig. Ten gauges are great guns and underrated

I suppose about eight months ago I won an auction on Gunbroker for what was supposed to be a rather rough DH 10 gauge hammerless of if memory serves about 1890 vintage . Anyway the UPS driver brings it to the shop , I open the box and the buttstock drops out not attached to the action . When I won the auction I knew the buttstock was incorrect . And beforehand I had asked the correct questions as the guys pics sucked and he told me he was 200% sure it was a DH blah blah blah . After the stock fell out I got the rest out to see where they busted the stock . And after looking at the metal it looked worlds better then the pics they had on GB . However the gun turned out to be a EH not a DH . Gun was bought as is no return . well I got on the horn with the fellow I bought it from text him some pics of the seriel number on the water table with the E marking etc etc packaged it up and sent it back as he agreed to refund any and all funds I had tied up in the whole fiasco . On hindsight I wish I had kept it and found another old stock to have fit to the gun .

After this deal I thought I had an NH bought but the shotgun Gods in the sky thought better of that deal as well .

I think I had 4 or 5 deals for Parker hammerless 10 gauge guns go south over the last couple years . Got to the point I thought I never would get one and to be honest I wasn't overly enthused about this hammer gun when I first laid hands on it . But after awhile it grew on me and with that being said I'll still need atleast one Parker hammerless 10 before I give up . Actually a pair would be better one on a #2 frame and the other on a #3 frame !