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Bill, that gun was owned by my buddy from Ontario that checked out the Sterlingworth for me. I'll pm his name to you and you can contact him through the PGCA website member list. I've seen quite a few pictures that Epps wouldn't have and it is a fine looking Parker and a great shooter by his reports. Too bad that it is three provinces away or I would have already handled it.
Birdawg, it still has the duck's head, though I've thought about having it removed. It does make me smile a bit when I'm in the blind and adds character. The gun does have its warts, but I like it.

66097 is resting comfortably in my safe. I bought it last year from a gentleman who is in his late 80's and thought he bought it new when he was in his 20's. I suspect he was wrong in that regard unless it sat in the store for several years.

It is in marvelous shape and gets out to play on the trap line a couple times a year.

32" Sterlingworth Trap Ejector #1230XX (Utica) letters with full&full chokes and card is marked Special with no further detail as to what Special means.However, I do know that the gun has 3" chambers.

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Anyone here pick up on the DHE Parker pigeon gun at Ellwood Epps?

Dave you can add #108083 to your 12 bore 32" specimens table, Its a extractor gun and it has standard .726 bores with .040 chokes in both barrels. the stock has a little higher than usual specs with 2 5/8" drop at heel and 14 1/4" LOP. This is the gun I shoot in the Bo Whoop event and it does a great job on those long targets. I got this off fellow member Silvers a while back (thanks Silvers).These 32" sterlingworths are hard to come by and I have never handled one with ejectors in thirty some years of looking. Paul

Now with folks reporting their 32-inch Sterlingworths to me I have seven 12-gauges recorded, and an odd pattern is developing, that all seven have a 0 in the hundreds place in their serial numbers?!?

Dave you can add one more to the list. I have 116063. This gun was sent back to Savage sometime after 1938 or 1939 and the barrels were replaced and are marked Savage with the chamber length roll stamped on the left barrel. The checkering appears to have been re-cut and perhaps the receiver re-cased at the same time which made me suspicious that this gun was not originally a 32 inch barreled gun, however the 0 in the hundreds position leads me to believe that it was re barreled in the original length.

I have 66097 resting quietly in my safe. It's all original and in excellent shape. I bought it a few years ago from an elderly gentleman who told me he thought he bought it new (he was in his early - mid-80's but I doubt he actually bought it new unless it sat on the store shelf for several years). It letters as a Sterlingworth Trap.

I will mesasure mine and reply

A phila vintage 32" sw recently sold at Cabela's in Hamburg PA. The listed price was $1500.

Sterlingworth
32", SN 120008, 2 5/8" chambers
BORE R- .729 L- .729
Chokes: R-.048" L - .048"
Wall thickness at 14" form breech R-.036 L - .037
Barrel weight #2 3lbs 11 0z.
Drop 1 3/4 x 2 3/4"
LOP 14 1/4"
Weight 7lbs 7 1/2"
Chokes taper for 4.4" in each barrel

well its not my gun but I have in my records that I have seen one for sale a while back that I can add to the numbers and it fits Dave's odd coincidence situation...

32" SW non-ejector 105092

ASavageFox wrote:well its not my gun but I have in my records that I have seen one for sale a while back that I can add to the numbers and it fits Dave's odd coincidence situation...

32" SW non-ejector 105092

11 out of 11 guns with the same characteristics (Fox Sterlingworth with 32 inch barrels with a 0 in the onehundred position of the 5 or 6 digit serial number) with no outliers from a totally random sample is just too much to be a coincidence.