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[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

Mr. Books (as Scatman Crothers addressed our fictional hero),

Let's say there are at least 10 active ten gauge Parker guys who actively participate in our discussions. There are also others who occasionally comment.

Hmmm, a 10 guage Parker? You better buy it before I do!

Mark

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

There are just 10 of us? I am really enjoying the Remington 1894 10ga I picked up earlier this year. Overall I think the Parker is a better built and better looking double but the '94 is very pleasing to me and I am shooting it well this spring on crows.

Last year we sold a pair of Remington 1894 12's thru our shop in Virginia for a gentleman in Vermont that used to be a Gun Show dealer . One was reall really nice except sone one nad taken wire and made a picture of sorts in the buttstock of a setter . Anyways finish wise wood and metal was at or above 90% !

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mark Ouellette

Mr. Books (as Scatman Cruthers addressed our fictional hero),

Let's say there are at least 10 active ten gauge Parker guys who actively participate in our discussions. There are also others who occasionally comment.

Hmmm, a 10 guage Parker? You better buy it before I do!

Mark

While I have alot of intrest in 10 gauge guns period !

I'm also getting intrested in the 8 gauge as well !
A couple of my friends have 8 bore rifled british guns , personally I'll be happy if I am able to fire birdshot in a nice old 8 gauge shotgun sometime be it a Parker or whatever !

[George Lander]

My very first (or perhaps second) collector gun I acquired when I was about eight years old. A friend of my Dad who ran an AMOCO service station had taken a Parker 10 gauge hammergun in trade for some gas. I had a H&R 16 gauge single barrel that my Dad had given me and we traded even. I even got a box of Super-X 10 gauge #4's to go with it. I have never shot it but I plan to get it re-stocked & shoot it with RST loads. It has Damascus barrels and is in very fine condition other than the wood which is a homemade job.

I have been fortunate enough to acquire a ten gauge Parker hammergun SN 5473 in "like new" condition that was featured in a DGJ article, two eight gauge hammerguns: a James Beattie and a Joseph Braddell, and a four gauge hammergun by Edward M. Reilly in it's original trunk case. I really like the big bore guns.

Best Regards, George

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by George Lander

I have been fortunate enough to acquire a ten gauge Parker hammergun SN 5473 in "like new" condition that was featured in a DGJ article, two eight gauge hammerguns: a James Beattie and a Joseph Braddell, and a four gauge hammergun by Edward M. Reilly in it's original trunk case. I really like the big bore guns.

Best Regards, George

You sound kind of like a close friend of mine !

My friend pig hunts every year in Arkansas and his pig battery consists of three CZ550's in 375 H&H MAG for his "light rifle" , a 416 Rigby as his "medium gun" and finally a 505 Gibbs as his "dangerouse hog gun" . And believe me when I say this guy uses these !

Personally I topped out with the 416 REM MAG and in shotguns my old Ithaca MAG-10's with 2 1/4 ounce turkey loads were enough !

However after shooting my grandfathers W.C. quite a bit over the last couple years I wish to add a Parker 10 gauge hammerless to my "accumulation" and dare I venture to say possibly a hammerless Parker 8 gauge

To be honest I would find it quite satisfying to work up a decent smokeless buckshot load for a Parker 8 gauge and shoot some poor unsuspecting Virginia deer at 35 yards or less

[Bruce Day]

I hunted hogs for three years in the thickets along the Red River in southern Oklahoma. Two years out of the three, the hog came after me. The first year I used a 30-30 and was way undergunned. The last couple years I used a 30-06 which was enough if I hit the hog in a vital spot. My crawl through the brush handgun is a .357 mag but you need to hit them in the head with that when they are head down and charging at you. You would not want to get pushed to the ground by a 400lb hog.

All in all it was great sport and I felt like a redneck Robert Ruark or Karamojo Bell.

Bwana Bruce

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bruce Day

I hunted hogs for three years in the thickets along the Red River in southern Oklahoma. Two years out of the three, the hog came after me. The first year I used a 30-30 and was way undergunned. The last couple years I used a 30-06 which was enough if I hit the hog in a vital spot. My crawl through the brush handgun is a .357 mag but you need to hit them in the head with that when they are head down and charging at you. You would not want to get pushed to the ground by a 400lb hog.

All in all it was great sport and I felt like a redneck Robert Ruark or Karamojo Bell.

Bwana Bruce

My friend "The Pig Hunter" only see's sport in hog hunting and bear hunting .

He laughs at me for liking to shoot deer !

But strangely enough he takes all the venison I can give him which is usually somewhere in the 10-12 deer a year category

[King Brown]

I don't understand the hankering to shoot a gauge bigger than the need. Seriously, I'm not being mischievous. Maybe it's because I'm a meat-and-potato guy who chooses the best shotgun, rifle, fishing gear, boat, aircraft, truck or car for my mission. I know all about sentiment because I'm as hooked solidly there with the notion of another time and another great gun. Is that it? With sensible loads regardless of gauge, I can't imagine it being a bigger bang. Help, please.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by King Brown

I don't understand the hankering to shoot a gauge bigger than the need. Seriously, I'm not being mischievous. Maybe it's because I'm a meat-and-potato guy who chooses the best shotgun, rifle, fishing gear, boat, aircraft, truck or car for my mission. I know all about sentiment because I'm as hooked solidly there with the notion of another time and another great gun. Is that it? With sensible loads regardless of gauge, I can't imagine it being a bigger bang. Help, please.

You have your right to your opinion just as I or anyone else has the same to their opinion !

Personally I believe if we all agreed on what guns to use or shoes to wear it would be a pretty boring world !

If it were a totally utilitarian world there would be no 410 bore or 28 gauge or 204 Ruger etc etc etc !

There are very few rifle cartidges or shotgun gauges or bores that I don't like !

And while I am not trying to argue with you , you use the word "best" , in my honest opinion there is NO ONE best for anything be it shotguns , flyrods or whatever !

I suppose in my own situation and many others , the desire or want for 8 gauge , 10 gauge , 28 gauge or whatever is because it's there !

Remmember there is NO SUCH THING as overkill dead is DEAD period !

[Bruce Day]

You don't believe in matching the gauge to the game? Like a 10 for geese and a 20 for quail? You believe in shredding the game?