new member with lots of questions.

[dave egeland]

i would like to thank you for allowing me to join the club. i have a parker bros 10 gauge hammer shotgun that was given me by my uncle. supposedly has been in the family since new. the gun had set in the attic for years, so that tells you the shape it is in. would like to restore it and have been reading the suggestions. my 1st question is that i have seen nothing about barrels labeled "stub twist". what is a stub twist barrel? 2nd question: the barrel has 2 serial numbers on it. seems i had read about parker being able to interchange barrels? the numbers are 33366 and 17700. from what i can tell the gun was made in 1883. that enough questions for tonight. thank you again for allowing me to join the club. dave