Judging by Mr. Craxon's arguements and refusal to accept sound advice from Parker experts, he should probably go ahead and pay the $2500 or whatever he needs to pay in order to obtain such a fine old representative piece of. . . whatever. . .

Many of us heve seen 0-frames that are heavier than the same sixteen gauge on a 1-frame - value being in the weight and handling of an upland gun, not in the number stamped on the lug, IMHO