10 Gauge Weight

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

My 10 gauge Grade 3 Lifter with 30" Damascus Steel barrels on the 3-frame weighs 8.62 lbs. (8 lbs., 9 oz.)





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Wow! My similar gun with the laminate barrels is slightly a pound heavier than that. My barrels had an unstruck weight of 5-10. The barrels are incredibly thick even though they are actually true 9 gauge barrels.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer

Wow! My similar gun with the laminate barrels is slightly a pound heavier than that. My barrels had an unstruck weight of 5-10. The barrels are incredibly thick even though they are actually true 9 gauge barrels.

Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, you keep saying "laminate" barrels Art... What is the rib marked? Does it say Laminated Steel?

Are the barrels you refer to actually "Laminated Steel" made by Parker Brothers and stamped with the P on the forward area of the right barrel flat? If yes, I have found that the Parker-made Laminated Steel barrels are generally heavier than other composite barrels found on Parker Bros. shotguns, barrel length and frame size being equal.
As an example, the 2-frame 28" Parker-made Laminated Steel barrels on my 12 gauge D Lifter have a pre-struck weight of 4 lbs., 8 ounces and the actual weight id 4 lbs., 1 ounce which is nearly a half-pound heavier than the normal weight of fluid steel or Damascus barrels of comparable length and frame size on any other Parker.





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[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer

My barrels had an unstruck weight of 5-10. The barrels are incredibly thick even though they are actually true 9 gauge barrels.

Incidentally Art, in looking for a reference to the "true 9 gauge" you refer to, In the appendix pages of The Parker Story, beginning on page 1003, we see reference to the 8 gauge, then the 11 gauge, then the 14 gauge, but no tables making reference to a "9 gauge" so I'm guessing that you have a 10 gauge that is over-bored or honed out to a measurement that could be construed as a 9 gauge but what gauge shell actually fits the chamber perfectly? What gauge is the gun according to the Parker Bros. factory records? What is the serial number of this gun?





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