shot-shell question

Autumn Daze · 12-09-2010, 03:19 PM

4000 PSI below Parker calculated service loads for the gun......and if I may add "When it was new".

J.B. Books · 12-09-2010, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

4000 PSI below Parker calculated service loads for the gun......and if I may add "When it was new".

I think Dean bought some of his new didn't he?

Ed Blake · 12-09-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

4000 PSI below Parker calculated service loads for the gun......and if I may add "When it was new".

But at what point is a Parker considered "old"? 50 years? 100 years? I'm more concerned with cracking the stock with a lot of recoil rather than harming the barrels with loads the gun was built for.

Autumn Daze · 12-09-2010, 09:12 PM

Ed, I think that even a 242,000 serial number gun is "old". And I agree with you about going easy on 60 year old wood. I shoot both damascus and fluid steel guns and we know that barrels both composite or fluid will go through strain cycles of firing.I just don,t see a need to shoot hot loads through them.