Rare BHE .410 4/0-frame sighting

[Wild Skies]

Not so fast George, I believe it to be a different set of serial numbers for the 28-ga. guns. We're looking for a BHE .410 on a 4/0-frame, right?

It appears that Larry Baer's in-the-white A-1 Special 28/28/.410 3-bbl. set that sold in a Julia auction and mentioned several times earlier in this thread isn't the only such set reportedly made IF the gun that Geoffroy hopefully shows us is indeed S/N 28-53.
http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2388-386/

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by gournet

I just finished engraving a Parker Repro , # 28-53 28ga , 2 28 barrels and a 410 barrels . Parker Repro . Brian Dudley is bluing the barrels .

All barrels are for the same gun, the two 28g barrels are marked 00 and the .410 barrels are marked 0000

[Wild Skies]

Posting pics for Geoffroy Gournet of his breathtakingly beautiful engraving that he did on Parker Reproduction S/N 28-53.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

All barrels are for the same gun, the two 28g barrels are marked 00 and the .410 barrels are marked 0000

I admittedly am a dope - how do 4/0 barrels fit on a 00 frame?

[C.O.B.]

I was wondering the same thing.

[Geoffroy Gournet]

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[Harry Reed]

WOW

[Dean Romig]

Absolutely stunning.

I fell in love with Geoffroy's signature flighting woodcock several years ago.






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[C.O.B.]

Awesome!!!
I'd be damn proud of that gun.....and hunt it.

[Wild Skies]

They're not really 4/0-frame barrels, they are only marked that way. We are talking about the 00-frame 28-ga. sets that have added .410 barrel sets to them. These 4/0-frame sets are a different animal than the true 0000-frame .410 guns that we've been talking about throughout this thread. The confusing thing is, to my knowledge, all Parker Reproduction .410 barrels are marked 0000, although they are marked the same, there are really two different sized barrels intended for two different dimensioned frames.