Help with Stange Finding on Parker

[Dean Romig]

I have and I sometimes have found similar thinner areas behind the chokes, just as yours are, on 0-frame 16's and one on a Damascus 20 gauge that I have.... but nothing so thin that I wouldn't shoot it. .021" on a nice set of barrels with no flaws would not scare me away from shooting it - I have seen people shoot Parkers with walls thinner than that, but again, it was in the front 1/3 of the barrels... and No, you may NOT take that to the bank... it's just my personal observation and opinion and in no way would I tell anyone to shoot it with wild abandon. Proceed with caution - use low payload, low pressure loads.





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[J. A. EARLY]

I'll bet the side with .020 choke is the .021 thickness six inches from the muzzle. If you think a 16 is thin, one finds that the 20 which has more chamber pressure usually is sometimes even thinner, and the 16 and 20 never approach the thickness of 12 gauge guns. Plus the barrels were refinished, right? I am guessing because of the finish being so good. There may have been a little metal removed in the prep for rust bluing, or to remove an external scratch. But in all likelihood, they left the factory that thin.