My Parkers - Old and Repro

[Charles Shelton]

As promised, here are snaps of my damascus 20 ga on a 28 ga frame that Dad gave me as a teenager. It is the fastest handling shotgun I have ever had and was used hard and put up wet for many years and recently brought back to life by Josef Riekers Gunmakers and it now is used only with light smokeless loads and with .410 inserts. Joe removed the dents from the barrels, but at my request left the barb wire cuts in the wood (from pushing down wire to cross fences in the Texas Panhandle) so as not to erase early hunting memories.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/th_P1010105.jpg (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/?action=view&current=P1010105.jpg)

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/th_P1010102.jpg (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/?action=view&current=P1010102.jpg)
My DHE 20 repro posing pretty and in its natural habitat with Kansas pheasant:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/th_Parker20.jpg (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/?action=view&current=Parker20.jpg)

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/th_P1000334.jpg (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/?action=view&current=P1000334.jpg)

My steel shot special 12 has been camera shy, but it looks just like the 20 with barrels 2 inches longer; a superb waterfowl gun and not bad on wide flushing upland birds and passing shots at dove.