Shooting Jeff's 8 Gauge at Lapeer SxS Shoot!

[Paul Harm]

Bill, I believe Jeff said something about another being a G Grade and the same fellow owned them. If I remember correctly, they were sent back to the factory and made into 4" chambers. Could be wrong as I can't remember 30 minutes latter how I set a SC's course.

[Bill Murphy]

You are right, the second gun was a Grade 2 as I recall. The rebore to 4" was very soon after the date of the order. I don't know if the gun actually got shipped before being bored to 4". Whatever, the gun is a horse. I recall the original order calling for 14 and 15 pounds. That's about as big as they got in my experience. 10 1/2 pounds is about as light as they got. I own Peters Cartridge Company exec Tom Keller's Grade 3 which is about the lightest known Parker eight at just over ten pounds and the only hammerless 30" eight in the existing Parker stock books. It weighs about the same, to the ounce, as my tubed skeet gun. I haven't seen the orders for any of the 40" eights, so really don't know the specified weights of those guns.