I have a Parker DH 20g with 32" Damascus barrels with 3" chambers built in 1919 that I bought from Jack Puglisi a few years ago. It was originally shipped to Louisiana. It is built on a #2 frame (normally used on 12 gauge guns). It weighs 8lbs 2oz and is choked .029/.029. I removed the original pg stock and splinter, stored them away, and restocked the gun with an old piece of Teyssier walnut as a straight grip/full checkered splinter to my LH dimensions with a skeleton butt plate. A few years back I stopped by Cabelas and purchased 650 rounds of the discontinued Federal Tungsten Polymer 3" 1 1/4 oz #6 for <$1 a round on closeout. Since then I have used this gun with those shells regularly for decoyed ducks. It patterns and handles very well and the recoil is hardly worth mentioning. Besides there is just something cool about the way the shape of the long barrels sweep from the thick breech and rapidly slim down to their small gauge width. If it had ejectors it would be my "go to" double for Argentinian doves (another 20g magnum a M21 30" gun has held that spot now for the last few years). Just why that man in Louisiana ordered that "heavy 20" in Damascus at the end of WWI would make an interesting story but we'll never know... Francis Sell would have liked this gun. His Gun Digest article many years ago has always kept me fond of big twenties...
Last edited by 11F; 08/26/11 09:28 AM.
