The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[Bill Murphy]

I rotate my #3 frame 30" 10 gauge Titanic barrels between my NH gun and my BH gun. They fit better on the NH gun, but they're so neat on the BH.

[chris dawe]

I geuss you can count me in as well...it's not a Parker though,and it's on the bench waiting it's turn at restoration,it's a Ithaca N.I.D...she's seen better day's ,but should be up and running by winter.

[charlie cleveland]

the short ten will always be my favorite..in my youth i was in aweof the mighty ten and i guess i still am... i shoot the ten ga quite often it makes a fine gun for every thing from deer turkey quail duck to squirl to every thing in between...if you aint got one you dont know what your missing..... charlie

[scott porter]

I loved my first ten so much I bought another one. I have shot pheasants and clays with the first one and plan to shoot ducks with it in Louisiana this season. I am shooting #96343 short ten top lifter hammer gun. It is a D grade and appears in the Parker story many times since it formerly belonged to one of the authors. It is choked full and extra full with 28" bbls. I just purchased a grade 2 underlifter 10 with great metal but a butt stock broken at the wrist. Jim Kelly is doing a repair to make it a good shooter for clays. It has 30" bbls choked cyl/cyl.

[J.B. Books]

Almost half a year since the last post, any new 10 bore owners/shooters since then?

[Leighton Stallones]

JOnes Lever, 10 1/4 lbs,choked full and full,32 inch Damascus 3 bar bbls,
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[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

Almost half a year since the last post, any new 10 bore owners/shooters since then?

I got two.

I have a 10 hammer underlifter #10227- basically unfired- was owned by a Parker EE - a caster. I have never fired it but bought some RSTs from Morris so soo I will.

the second is a damascus PH grade 55861- very early hammerless. i alway thought it was a 12 but never fired it. well 2 weeks ago I dropped a 12 ga shell in it and the chamber swallowed it. we put in a short ten and fired it in a vise. no problem.
Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.
I think it will be my new skeet gun.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

I got two.

I have a 10 hammer underlifter #10227- basically unfired- was owned by a Parker EE - a caster. I have never fired it but bought some RSTs from Morris so soo I will.

the second is a damascus PH grade 55861- very early hammerless. i alway thought it was a 12 but never fired it. well 2 weeks ago I dropped a 12 ga shell in it and the chamber swallowed it. we put in a short ten and fired it in a vise. no problem.
Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.
I think it will be my new skeet gun.

That is neat and explains at least one 2 frame (assuming it is a 2 frame) 10ga Grade 1 Twist. Can you scan and post the letter? Have you had the barrels walls measured, be interesting to know the thickness after the factory modification.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

Mark Conrad's letter confirms it- it was sent back to the factory and bored out to a 10 guage with 2 and 5/8 chambers. Mark said he has never seen such a thing.

What is the minimum wall thickness on your 12-10 gauge convertible?

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

What is the minimum wall thickness on your 12-10 gauge convertible?

I have no way to measure as I have no guages.
i do know that the BBLS were shortened at some time as well.