The Mighty Short Ten

[Joe Wood]

I shoot three Parker short 10's. My favorite all around is a hammer top lever dollar grade on a 2 frame and original 28" twist tubes and right at 8 lbs. A very "brown" gun overall but deadly on anything that flies. Favorite load is 1 1/4 oz. With its short shot column I think all the shot gets there at the same time and in pretty much the same spot. Hard to explain but these guns deliver their payload with class!

#55,314 EH #2 frame delivered 12/26/1888 still doing its job



DH #3 frame 30" 10 bore



The ultimate pheasant gun: Dollar grade #2 frame 10 bore, 28" tubes, hammer (2003)

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Paul Harm

Mine is a hammergun with 30" barrels on a #2 frame and 2 5/8" chambers with a wedge forearm serial #13979. Maybe the last one with a wedge forearm ? Because of the cost of new Remington hulls, I cut a hull to 2" to see if I could just trim the hulls everytime they went bad from reloading. Think I found a way to get many more reloads from a shell.

I cut some back to 2 5/8" but I don't think I could go much shorter and still use a star crimp as the wad fingers of the SP10 was would have been too high. I believe most of these old 10's have "square chambers" and I wondering if that would upset the pattern from a shell less than 2 7/8".

[Bill Murphy]

Pete is exactly right. You should know whether your gun has square cornered chambers before you decide what ammunition to use. Chambers with tapered forcing cones are less ammunition sensitive.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Joe Wood

#55,314 EH #2 frame delivered 12/26/1888 still doing its job

Joe I hope you submit the pic of your EH for Parker of the Month, it's a great picture!

[Austin W Hogan]

Joe's gun has been in PP a couple of times. It may be the first 2 grade hammerless.

Best, Austin