Parker Blow Up

[charlie cleveland]

these old composite barrel shotguns in good shape are as tuff as the fluid steel barrel guns...most 2 7/8 inch chambered 10 ga guns will not chamber the 3 1/2 inch 10 ga shell..but some will close shut with the 3 1/2 inch shell...out of 7 old 10 ga guns that i have only one will close shut with the long shell...this gun has a twist barrel in good shape i would not be afraid to say it would shoot these 3 1/2 inch shells with no problems ...the chambers may have been lengthed on this gun for it does measure 3 1/2 inch chambers...it s barrels are 30 inch but the barrel weight on the barrel is 7 lb 14 ounce the end of the barrels are twice as thick as any of my other guns...my dad hunted ducks for several years with a lefever with damascus barrels with no problems a lot of those heavy loads were shot in it...i m not saying to go use heavy loads in a composite barrel gun i m just saying if the barrels are in good shape there safe to use with loads designed for them..some of those old loads were pretty stiff in their day...thanks drew for all that you do....charlie

[Drew Hause]

On the theme of 10g and crazy

A post on the LCSCA Forum in Dec. 2014 regarding a 1906 No. 0 10g:
I was at a farm where a guy I have known for a couple years came out with this L.C. smith. He first shot the gun with Federal Premium Vital-Shok 3 1/2 Inch Magnum copper-plated 1100 fps 27 pellets No. 1 buck (27 pellets of #1 buck is about 2 1/2 oz.). I still have the box and 1 live shell. He fired one shell out of each barrel with no problems. I asked if I could shoot the gun...and fired 1 shell out of each barrel.
I have never seen a gun this old nevertheless shoot one. I thought it would be cool to hunt with it. I'm guessing from your comment not such a good idea.

and this
1917 Damascus 10g Ideal “Waterfowl Special” (NO SUCH THING) with 3 1/2” chamber (ALSO NO SUCH THING) 9-2015 thread on DoubleGunBBS
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...=420838&page=1



The gun was offered for sale again in 2016 - “My brothers shotgun, he has had it approx 2 years. And fired it 50 plus times with factory smokeless 3.5” Magnums, shot a turkey with it this spring!”