Victor, I am in your boat.....I love [U]shooting! , and I have come to love shooting guns that have a story to tell. I started off collecting, to shoot, american doubles that were straight stocked.....upon discovering Parkers, the almost unimaginable variations, and sheer numbers, AND the intrinsic beauty of the Parker guns have definitely made me, make Parker guns my sub specialty!!, and really the only gun I have been interested in “collecting”, just due to the vast diversity among the quarter of a million Parkers (original) made.....there are no 8 gauge foxes, no 28 bore elsies or foxes, etc.....they are just THE most interesting American double to me.....I do not consider myself a collecter in the traditional sense, but a acquirer of interesting shotguns to shoot, and become a participant in the legacy in a tool (shotguns) history...and my pleasure is not in having, it is in using.
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" I love the look Hobbs, my Vizsla, gives me after my second miss in a row."
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