What a lot of fun that must have been John! I’d love to try it but I wouldn’t know which Parker to shoot.
Several years ago when the PGCA Annual Meeting was held at Addieville in RI in conjunction with the Vintagers event Dave Suponski and I took our little 16 ga. 0-frame lifters with 24” cut barrels to the practice station to see what these guns would do at ‘out there’ targets.
We were both surprised at the distances we were breaking clays at! In fact, we drew a crowd of onlookers who quickly became our cheering squad. We were repeatedly breaking them at 40-50 yards.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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