Originally Posted By: eightbore
John, if you're going to use only 2 3/4" shells, why are you searching for a 3" chambered gun? There are nice heavy Parkers with shorter chambers that are not as hard to find as a 3" gun. We would still like to hear more about the #2 frame gun you found.


I’m not searching, I found one that looks like it would be a solid, not too heavy, waterfowl gun. I had a nice DS grade Lefever that was a bit heavy for chasing Montana pheasants all day long, but being 110 years old I worried about shooting heavy bismuth duck loads all day.

Cut to today; I now have a 6.5 pound LC Smith FW for pheasants and my eye on this magnum 3” Parker VH grade.