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Originally Posted by Kenny Graft
Shoot that gun as it is and check your patterns....cutting the chokes open is a one way road and must be properly performed or the new patterns could be off point of aim or just not what you wanted....Spredders are great for 12 bore guns and will not change the guns P.O.A. And if you want to go out west and hunt wild roosters it will make a great gun for that too....(-: SXS ohio
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Thanks, Kenny: I've been reading about spredder shells. I'd rather not mess with the chokes. The gun is in very nice condition. Most of the barrels show black damascus figuring. Where the original owner's fingers wrapped around the barrel at the forearm the tubes are worn silver.
I'm toying with the idea of having the barrels re-finished, just because I love the look of the dark damascus figuring. Keith Kearcher lives just down the road from me and has done lots of work for me in the past. He is very good.
The GH is pretty heavy. It is almost very heavy when compared to my Lefever and it seems heavier when compared to my Sterlingworth. However the gun balances well. The tubes are 30 inchers, but for some unknown reason they don't seem long.
The barrels seem thick at the breech. Seems to me that it'd be hard to blow them up, but I've read what we have all read, and I'm going to be careful.
Someone here said I should load 7/8 ounce loads. Sounds like a good idea to me. Then it'd shoot about like a lightly loaded 20 gauge. That's okay with me.
I have to admit that the thought of shooting a damascus Parker is intriguing to me.
"What ya shoot'en?"
"A Parker."
"Oh."
Okay, I'm a snob.
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