Repro Chamber Length

[Donovan Kirkpatrick]

I have never measured my SCC chambers. Been tempted to buy a gauge, both choke and chamber. Just never gotten around to it. I always find another gun to spend the $$$ on.

[Dean Romig]

My DHE 20 ga. Repro "skeet gun" with both 26" Q1 & Q2 and 28" Q1 & Q2 barrels have 3" chambers in both sets of barrels.

[Robert Massie]

In the past I have had Briley do work on some of my guns ( but never any of my SxS's). I was talking with one of their people the other day and asked if the Parker Reproductions were good canidates for chamber lengthening he said he had never done this with one of the Parker Reproductions and would have to see the gun. I thought some of you might have had this done I'll just box it up and send it to Briley for a look. Thanks. As for the guy that thinks 2 3/4 shells are just as effective as 3" for waterfowl he is either shooting led, shells loaded with stuff I can't afford to shoot, or does not do much waterfowl hunting

[Double Lab]

Robert;
With all due respect I've been hunting waterfowl here on the Chesapeake Bay for well over 45yrs at least 2 times per week plus trips out to the western states to hunt pothole ducks, so I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this. I do not shoot steel, I either shoot bismuth or tungsten matrix, which is very effective and I make it a point to be the best shot I can be. That is only achieved by burning alot of powder all year long and not by relying on a roman candle load. The art of waterfowling is about decoying birds to within reasonable range and then making a clean kill. I detest "
skybusters". You can shoot what you like but I'll stick by my original statement that 3" loads are not needed and are not as efficient as a 2 3/4" load. That is a ballistic reality. If you want to shoot a load that heavy go to a 10ga. which can handle that much shot. In shotgun shooting sometimes less is more but we Americans just have to have our 3 1/2" cannons to kill a 4lb. duck or 12lb. goose. Don't even get me started about those folks who think they need #4's or 5's to kill a pheasant and this new generation of turkey loads that could bring down a Cessna. Have a nice day

[Duckman]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Robert;
With all due respect I've been hunting waterfowl here on the Chesapeake Bay for well over 45yrs at least 2 times per week plus trips out to the western states to hunt pothole ducks, so I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this. I do not shoot steel, I either shoot bismuth or tungsten matrix, which is very effective and I make it a point to be the best shot I can be. That is only achieved by burning alot of powder all year long and not by relying on a roman candle load. The art of waterfowling is about decoying birds to within reasonable range and then making a clean kill. I detest "
skybusters". You can shoot what you like but I'll stick by my original statement that 3" loads are not needed and are not as efficient as a 2 3/4" load. That is a ballistic reality. If you want to shoot a load that heavy go to a 10ga. which can handle that much shot. In shotgun shooting sometimes less is more but we Americans just have to have our 3 1/2" cannons to kill a 4lb. duck or 12lb. goose. Don't even get me started about those folks who think they need #4's or 5's to kill a pheasant and this new generation of turkey loads that could bring down a Cessna. Have a nice day

I most heartily agree. Even though I own the gun pictured above with 3" chambers in both barrel sets, I have never fired a 3" shell in either. I am closer to 50 years of ducking and goosing at age 63 and could count on one hand the boxes of 3 inch shells I have fired. For most of that time I never had a gun capable of firing 3 inch shells. I like my 28 ga repro over decoys with #5 or #6 bismuth. When that runs out I will use nice shot. I load that for use in the 16 and 12 bores.
and just for fun... here is a 16 bore non-Parker I own with results of 1 oz of #5 nice shot.
No offense meant to those preferring the bigger stuff. It is indeed a country of choices.

[Bill Murphy]

I will continue to use my 1 3/4 ounce ten gauge steel loads as long as they last for general waterfowling. I own a trainload of the stuff and it cost me about five bucks a box. Of course, I don't shoot it in original Parkers, but the price and effectiveness is my criteria. When I can't handle the ten in the field, (like recently), I will go to expensive no tox 2 3/4" loads and shoot the Parkers.

[Dean Romig]

Well stated Mr. 2-Labs

[Robert Massie]

I do shoot steel and alot of it ( flooded timber in the morning and chasing snows in the afternoon) I don't hunt a couple of times a week, only come home a couple of times a season. I hunt in northeast Arkansas I guess the birds are tougher down there and we only skybust when the birds aren't close. My original post was a question about a gun that may save me having to ship it (sorry). My intention was not to debate ammo choice or hunting ethics . Shoot what you like that's why they make different flavors. That is all

[SXS OHIO]

I would think with steel shot 3" shells would be good...they would hold more bullets of a bigger size shot needed when shooting steel insted of lead type pellets. They said to drop one or two shot sizes when shooting steel....the 3 incher would hold more of the bigger pellets. SXS ohio...(-:

[Wild Skies]

Tony, my SCC came to me with 6 original Winchoke screw-in chokes 2-SK (.003), 1-IC (.009), 1-M (.016), 1-IM (.019) and 1-F (.029). I bought two more Winchoke choke tubes for the gun, a CYL (.000) and an XF (.039). I never knew of a SK2 as being available, but I'm beginning to believe that with Parker Reproductions, just as with the original Parker Bros. guns, you can never say never.