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John Nagel
10-23-2020, 12:04 PM
Would love to see engraving examples of grouse and woodock.


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Reggie Bishop
10-23-2020, 01:49 PM
Here you go.


https://store.vfiguns.com/parker/parker-a-1-special-shotgun-for-sale
Brian Dudley
10-23-2020, 02:28 PM
Woodcock on the bottom of a CH upgrade. Done by Gournet.

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Reggie Bishop
10-23-2020, 02:29 PM
Who did the colors on this one Brian?
Bruce Day
10-23-2020, 06:52 PM
Original engraving , original case colors.
Bruce Day
10-23-2020, 06:54 PM
And another original engraving and case colors
Bruce Day
10-23-2020, 07:00 PM
Close .
Dean Romig
10-23-2020, 07:11 PM
Bruce, is that the gun with the American Flag Bunting barrels?





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Bruce Day
10-23-2020, 07:26 PM
No. Just a light upland 12ga G. I hunt with this gun a lot.
Bruce Day
10-24-2020, 05:16 PM
I assume that Mr Copper meant ruffed grouse but there are other grouse species.

Here are Sharptail grouse on one of my old guns. Back in the 1880’s through the 1910’s sportsmen would ride the trains out from the east to the towns along the railroad lines out here. They would be met by farmers on buckboards or Model T’s and taken out to the prairies to hunt grouse . In Nebraska along the Platte or Kansas along the Kaw , Republican, Solomon , or Arkansas they would hunt ducks in the morning and prairie grouse in the afternoon . The old illustrations of this in the sportsmen’s journals of the time are interesting.

The practice continues.
Dean Weber
12-31-2020, 01:24 PM
Or maybe these are hummingbirds....?

https://i.imgur.com/go4BVt5.jpg
Dean Romig
12-31-2020, 04:15 PM
Looks like Runge’s interpretation of woodcock.





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Russ Jackson
01-01-2021, 03:06 PM
Or maybe these are hummingbirds....?

https://i.imgur.com/go4BVt5.jpg

I would say , " Wilson's Jacksnipe " ,Great looking Engraving ! Almost like a Woodcock but missing the Big orange Belly !
Dave Noreen
01-06-2021, 12:05 PM
The ultimate Parker Bros. Grouse --

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Brian Dudley
01-07-2021, 12:37 PM
That trigger plate on that D is very different Dean.
Dean Romig
01-07-2021, 02:18 PM
I agree Brian, but it's a pretty late Remington gun and they strayed a bit from the norm in wood, checkering and engraving themes after the move.

And we wonder if these unusual guns are the result of a special order, but we may never know.



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