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Mike.Smith
10-18-2013, 01:00 AM
If you weren't able to attend the 2013 PGCA Annual Meeting and Banquet in Rhode Island this year, you missed out on an exceptional display of 20 gauge guns. The members in attendance were able to vote on their favorite, and now you can too! Here are photos of all 9 guns. Sorry I don't have details on all of the guns, maybe someone else can help to fill in the gaps. Enjoy!

Gun #1 - 20ga Parker A1 Special

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Gun #2 - R. F. CROSS'S WIDGEON DUCK CLUB 20 GAUGE 3" PARKER DHE WITH 32" BARRELS

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Gun #3

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Gun #4 - According to The Parker Story, only two twenty gauge lifters were made with laminated steel barrels in Grade 3. This is the 28" gun.

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Gun #5 - 20ga GH on a #2 Frame with 32" Barrels and 3" Chambers. Re-stocked by Craig Libhart.

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Gun #6 - Grade 2, 20ga Lifter with Factory 29" Laminated Steel Barrels on an "O" Frame. Manufactured in 1879 and still in original condition today. This gun is 1 of 15 in all grades, and the only one with 29" barrels.

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Mike.Smith
10-18-2013, 01:09 AM
Gun #7

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Gun #8 - 20ga A1 Special Upgrade by Turnbull. Gun is on the "O" Frame with 26in Peerless barrels, weighing just 6lbs. Manufactured in 1921.

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Gun #9

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Eldon Goddard
10-18-2013, 01:12 AM
Wish I could have been there.

Mark Ouellette
10-18-2013, 05:59 AM
Mike,

Outstanding set of photographs!

Mark

Bill Davis
10-18-2013, 06:52 AM
Super job. Thank you. I hope there will be a Parker Pages article with full details. That would be great.

Dean Romig
10-18-2013, 07:29 AM
Mike - Thanks for those exceptional pictures of the 2013 People's Choice display guns.

Russ Jackson
10-18-2013, 07:52 AM
Great Pictures !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You for posting ,wish I could have been there ! Russ

Erick Dorr
10-18-2013, 07:36 PM
WOW

Vote? This is going to take some time and eye strain.

Erick

charlie cleveland
10-18-2013, 09:28 PM
did i ever enjoy these pictures.. thanks charlie

Bill Murphy
10-18-2013, 10:33 PM
OK, which gun won the People's Choice Award. We may have been told, but I forgot.

Mike.Smith
10-18-2013, 11:43 PM
Bill, you're winner was Gun #6, one of the 20ga lifters.

Mills Morrison
10-19-2013, 09:16 AM
Beautiful guns and I like that there is a variety of different grades and different eras

Daryl Corona
10-19-2013, 10:34 AM
Thanks for the pics Mike.

edgarspencer
10-19-2013, 07:56 PM
Mike, In all honesty, I think I enjoy looking at your pictures more than I did seeing the guns with my own eyes. I don't know how you do it, but that's why I make maple syrup and you take pictures.

Daryl Corona
10-19-2013, 09:57 PM
Yeah.... and just like the pics you make damn good syrup.