My favorite configuration...16 "O" frames..

[Harold Pickens]

Art, I have a German hammer 16 also, cant read the name of the maker. Has .metric 29.5 in barrels cyl/F, and weighs less than 6 lbs. It's a little off face, but shimmed it up. Only paid 250 for it.

[Mills]

The German Gun Collectors had a table full of shooter Sauers, including several 16’s, at the Southern a few years ago. Unfortunately, I did not get any. They were priced to sell

[William Woods]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Nah, William, you wouldn't want this old thing.

Probably not Harold, but just in case send the dog and gun just to make certain! An English Setter and a 16GA Parker best in the field.

[William Woods]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

I’ve got enough Parker 16s that I occasionally find one I forgot I had

Now I know where all the 16's have gone.

[William Woods]

Originally Posted by William McClintock

My Parker DH 16 gauge O frame. The first time I shot sporting clays the gun broke the
initial 13 clays. It was about 80% overall that first day.
https://flic.kr/p/2nH7Phz

William did your 16 come with the round knob? I wonder how many 16's came from the factory with a round knob grip?

[stumpstalker]

Good question about that DH with the round knob. She’s a beauty.

I have a lightly-used 1925-issue, 1-frame VH 16 that my father wheedled away from a hunting and fishing buddy decades ago, when the unsuspecting owner of the gun proudly showed his new prize to Dad. I shoot it occasionally at the range, and may use it, given its full chokes, on Pheasants in open country. I also see that Ballistics Products offers a spreader insert for the 072SG16 wad, if one is reloading, which expands my options.

As for 0-frame 16s, the subject of the thread, my go-to grouse gun is a 1907, and later restored, 0-frame, 26-inch barreled 16-gauge VH. It is factory-choked cylinder and modified. Implausibly, the gun took First Place Honors in the People’s Choice Awards at the 2021 PGCA Annual Meeting and Banquet, amid an array of stunning upland guns – A, B, C, and D-grades.

The photo reveals little about the gun’s aesthetic features, however modest they are relative to the higher-grade competition, but it does convey what the gun was intended in to be used for.

[Victor Wasylyna]

Russell:

You paired that award winning 16-gauge VH with a very handsome dog. Great photograph!

-Victor

[stumpstalker]

Victor:

That previous photo was of "Zoey". She was preeminent among my guide's dogs in her day. Fantastic nose.

Then came "Hank", paired with the same doughty 0-framed 16-gauge VH.

[Harold Pickens]

The cyl/mod choking is my favorite, especially for grouse.l have a 26 in VH 20, and my DHE 16 both choked that way, and both weigh exactly 6 lbs. I've often thought I'd like to try an English Pointer.

[mobirdhunter]

Beautiful dogs, and a special gun. I followed many pointers in my time participating in field trials in Missouri. They can sure strike a pose on point that will make you catch breath.